Developmental Psychology

• Adults o Adults in the middle adulthood stage usually have the highest rate of fear of dying/death o During adulthood, adults are able to talk to their children about death and dying in a more comfortable manner o Older adults usually view death as a time organizer, and that it gives a reason to prioritize things in their lives again is the term used to describe the study of death. Aesthetic sense is known as the realization of mortality and death. This means that it tends to make individual more responsive to nature. This leads to a greater appreciation of pursuits that are of a creative nature. Some individuals will reconsider their lives, look at what they have and have not accomplished in life as well as look at the failures that may have occurred in life. Females tend to be less fearful about death thanmen. Older individuals in general are less anxious about death and dying than younger people. 11.2 The Hospice Movement Statistics show that there are approximately 70% of individuals who die in hospitals in the United States. This number is increasing for individuals who choose hospice care at home. There was a movement that began in the 1970s called The Hospice Movement. This movement began to humanize the dying process. It was also created to help reserve dignity to those who were dying. Palliative care is the term used to define hospice care that will focus on symptoms, and not focus on lengthening one’s life. 11.3 The Dying Process There are 5 terms that define the stages of dying. Let’s look at them below. • Agonal Stage : This is where a person will experience muscle spasms and gasping for death • Clinical Death : The heart, lungs, and brain function will stop. During this stage, a person can be revived • Brain Death : This is the stage where brain activity is not reversable • Persistent Vegetative State : A person is physiologically dead, but there is brain activity • Mortality : The person has no brain, muscular, cardiovascular, etc., functions, and they are dead. A lady by the name of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross proposed a framework that helped others understand death, and the stages of grief. • Denial : A person(s) refusing to accept death • Anger : A person becomes angry in regards to why a death happened • Bargaining : A personmay plead to trade places with the person who died. A personmay plead to do something in exchange for the deceased to return. • Depression : A person may experience extreme emotions that do come with the memory of painful events • Acceptance : Accepting that someone has passed, or will be passing or any other event that may occur Thanatology

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