PSY 2114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Healthcare Proxy, Advance Healthcare Directive, Terror Management Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Heather Poole

Document Summary

A multi-cultural life-span perspective reveals that reactions to death are ltered through many cultural prisms, affected by historical changes and regional variations as well as by the age of both the dying and bereaved. Death occurs later, takes longer, often occurs in hospitals, changes in causes of death, and awareness of after death. Now few die before old age which means fewer people have experienced death which has resulted in fear of death. Death rituals are diverse and change with historical conditions, ideas about death. Actions during life affect destiny after death, afterlife was assumed, spirit haunting. Do not readily accept the death of others (denial, anger, desperation) Reactions depend on dead person"s age and developmental stage. Attitudes are often irrational, fear deaths that seem random: death in late adulthood: attitudes shift again, anxiety decreases and hope rises, seem untroubled by the prospect of dying, acceptance of mortality (priorities shift) Legacy work: try to leave something meaningful for later generations.