FRHD 2060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Terror Management Theory, Heart Failure, Brain Death

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Scott Maitland

Document Summary

Thanatology the study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and the social attitudes towards these. Melanesians call the dead, the very sick and the old mate" and everyone else is toa. Meanings of death in the western culture include images, statistics, events, state of being, analogy, mystery, anxiety, and reward or punishment. Clinical death lack of heartbeat and respiration. Whole brain dead total lack of responsiveness (even to most painful stimuli) No spontaneous movement in response to stimuli. No spontaneous respirations for at least an hour. No eye movements, blinking or pupil response. No postural activity, swallowing, yawning or vocalizing. Flat ecg for at least 10 minutes. No change in any of these criteria when tested again in 24 hours. Lack of brain activity needs to occur in brain stem and cortex. Islamic scholars argue brain dead is not complete death where complete death require the cease of respiration.