Death and Dying
- Created by: ggmonkey
- Created on: 31-03-21 17:48
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- Death and Dying
- A good death
- Awareness of dying
- Personal preparation
- Prepare will
- Public preparation
- Sort out finances
- Relinquishing formal work roles
- Formal and informal farewells
- Customs facilitate social death following biologicl death
- Social death (isolation and lonliness) can preceed biological death
- There has been a decline in public space death
- People rarely see dead bodies today
- Natural death is coming to an end
- Medicalisation - more people dying noiselessly and hygienically
- Iatrogenesis - undermines peoples ability to manage to their own health
- Overtreatment and heroic medicine has confused dying with illness
- Most hospices are in charitable sectors and spaces are limited
- A good death
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