Death and Dying Multiple-Choice Questions Part 2

A) B) C) D) after a serious accident. His cognitive functions have ceased though he is still 44. breathing. His family and friends notice that his eyes have occasionally opened and he has made a few irregular sounds. Mikal: is in a coma. has brain death. is in a vegetative state. has locked-in syndrome. 45. A) B) C) D) A person with which of the following conditions is considered dead? a coma brain death a vegetative state locked-in syndrome A) B) C) D) The average person today lives ______ as long as the average person did a century ago. twice three times four times just about A) B) C) D) In _____, a seriously ill person is allowed to 47. die naturally, without any medical intervention. assisted suicide passive euthanasia a health care proxy active euthanasia. 46. 48. A) B) Which of the following is an example of passive euthanasia? A doctor gives a patient a prescription for a lethal medication. A husband injects his wife with an overdose of her medication, without her requesting this of him. C) D) A) B) C) D) A patient asks his adult child to give him a lethal injection. A doctor does not resuscitate a man who stops breathing after seeing that he had a DNR order. 49. A DNR order: can be used only by hospice workers. allows a natural death. is not available to the terminally ill. is illegal in most U.S. states. C) D) 50. An example of active euthanasia is when: a doctor does not restore breathing after reading the patient's DNR order. health care professionals limit painkilling drugs. someone turns off a patient's respirator. a patient refuses to eat. A) B) C) D) George is terminally ill and in constant pain. He has asked his doctor for a prescription he 51. can use to end his life. If the doctor gives the prescription and George uses it to die, it is considered: hospice care. physician-assisted suicide. passive euthanasia. palliative care. A) B) C) D) In countries where it is legal, _____ 52. terminally ill individuals choose assisted suicide. few most approximately half no A) B) 53. A) B) C) D) Oregon's law regarding assisted suicide requires the: patient to enter hospice care. patient's illness to be confirmed by at least 4 physicians. dying person to request the lethal drugs twice orally and once in writing. consent of the next of kin. A) B) C) D) When Oregon residents' reasons for requesting physician-assisted suicide were 54. assessed, which reason was identified as the least common? loss of autonomy loss of dignity pain loss of ability to enjoy life A) B) C) D) Between 1998 and 2011, more than 160,000 people died in Oregon. How many of the 55. deaths in Oregon could be attributed to physician-assisted “death with dignity”? 296 396 496 596 A) B) C) D) A major argument against legalizing euthanasia is a concern that it may lead 56. society to condone the killing of those who are not ready to die, creating a: passive euthanasia. health care proxy. slippery slope. death panel. In Oregon, which of the following groups is 57. MOST likely to use physician-assisted suicide? A) B) C) D) the oldest-old the poor European Americans those with only a high school education A) B) C) D) Some people designate a _____, or another 58. person who can medical decisions for them if they are unable to do so. health care proxy living will palliative care specialist court A) B) C) D) 59. A living will is written to identify: that no attempt should be made to revive the person if they stop breathing. the way property should be divided among heirs. and pass along important family stories. what medical intervention should be used if the person not conscious when a decision needs to be made. 60. A) B) C) D) 61. A) B) C) A person whom a dying person designates to make his or her medical decisions is a(n): adult child. health care proxy. attorney. hospice worker. Which of the following statements about living wills is TRUE? Living wills enable health care professionals to make decisions exactly as the patient would have wanted. Family members may override a living will. Low-income individuals are especially likely to have a living will. Even the most extensive living will cannot answer every question that may emerge. D) 62. A) B) C) D) The deep sorrow that people feel after the death of another is called: grief. mourning. a near-death experience. resilience. A) B) C) D) The type of grief that impedes a person's future life is called _____ grief. complicated absent disenfranchised incomplete A) B) C) D) Melina's father just died. She was very close to him, and simply cannot face the reality of 64. his death. To those around her, it appears that Melina is not grieving at all. Melina is experiencing _____ grief. complicated disenfranchised absent incomplete A) B) C) D) The type of grief in which people are not 65. allowed to mourn publicly because of cultural customs or social restrictions is called: incomplete grief. disenfranchised grief. complicated grief. absent grief. 63. A) B) C) D) Ted's ex-wife died suddenly. Although their two children were included in the memorial 66. service, Ted was intentionally excluded. Because he still cared about his ex-wife, he experienced: absent grief. incomplete grief. disenfranchised grief. mourning. A) B) C) D) Estelle's husband was flying a small plane when it disappeared above a wooded 67. mountainside. His body was never recovered. In this loss, it is likely that Estelle is experiencing: absent grief. incomplete grief. disenfranchised grief. mourning. 68. A) B) C) D) 69. A) B) C) D) 70. A) Which of the following conditions may hinder the healing and affirmation of the bereaved? experiencing a delay in recovering the body of the deceased holding a funeral a few days after the death having rosy recollections of the deceased person believing in life after death What percentage of mourners experience complicated grief? 5 10 15 50 The public and ritualistic expression of bereavement is called: mourning. B) C) D) sadness. a near-death experience. palliative care. 71. A) B) C) D) 72. A) B) C) D) A) B) C) D) Paid obituaries in newspapers and roadside memorials illustrate the fact that mourners: spend time and money on frivolous things. sometimes want strangers to know about a death. lose their sense of privacy. find little comfort in public commemoration. Older adults who were securely attached in 73. childhood are more likely to experience _____ grief when a loved one dies. absent complicated normal very little 74. A) B) C) D) An important function of the mourning process is to: allow a private expression of pain following a death. allow expression of grief publicly. identify a point of blame for the death. take one's mind off the loss of a loved one. In Western culture, viewing the deceased as a role model is seen as a healthy form of: a continuing bond. hallucination. denial. the slippery slope. In a longitudinal study of older married adults 75. in Detroit, almost all widows and widowers _____ their marriage. A) B) C) D) A) B) C) D) A) B) C) D) minimized idealized quickly forgot denigrated A longitudinal study of older married adults in Detroit found that widows and widowers who 76. were depressed for years after the death of their spouse: suffered from pathological grief. were more resilient than other widows and widowers. were the majority group in the study. had also been depressed before the death of their spouse. A study on responses to the death of a spouse 77. found that the majority of widows and widowers: were, within 6 months, about as happy and productive as they had been before their spouse's death. suffered from pathological grief, including extreme depression, for the first time in their lives. experienced a significant improvement in mood due to reduced caregiving demands. were slow to recover, but regained most of their ability to function within four years.