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Unit 10 : Death & dying
Background
Palliative care or hospice care
Supports dying patients and their relatives but does
not try to cure.
1-Practioners who work in this field have developed ways of using drugs such as: Morphine while at the same time maintaining patient's full faculties.
2- making use of alternative treatments that
can help with pain management, such as
relaxation therapy, massage, and music
therapy.
The reality of long, debilitating terminal illnesses raises the issue of euthanasia .
Euthanasia(n): Mercy killing. the practice (illegal in most countries) of
killing without pain a person who
is suffering and cannot be cured.
DeathDefinition of death :when the heart and breathing stop.
This means that emergency paramedics must continue all attempts to resuscitate until death on arrival is confirmed by hospital doctor.
But some medical training manuals state that a person cannot be assumed to be dead unless it is perfectly obvious- for example, in the case of decapitation.
When a patient dies in a hospital, nursing staff provide post-mortem care.Post mortem care:A set of procedure which includes making records and preparing the body for relatives.
Post mortem varies according to culture and religion and whether
or not there is going to be an autopsy to get more information
about the cause of death.
Vocabulary
Burial : ( n ) ceremony where a
deadperson is put under
theGround . Funeral : ( n )
a ceremony at which is
buried or cremated. procession
Cremation : ( n )
averment where the body of a
dead person is burnt in a special
building .
Anxiety : ( n )
A relatively permanent state of worry &
nervousness.
Autopsy: (n)an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or changes produced by
disease
Decomposition: (n)the process of decay caused
by bacteria
Loss consciousness : ( n )
Loss the ability to perceive & respond .
sibling : ( n )
A person‘s brother or sister.
sorrowful through loss or deprivation .
Grieving : ( adj )
Deceased: (adj)
Dead
A pause for relaxation .
Respite :
( n )
Cure : ( n )
A medicine or therapy cures
disease or relieve pain .
sympathy : ( n )
Sharing the feeling of others (especially feeling of sorrow or anguish)
Diagnose : ( v )
A medical analysis
Mental deteriorati
on of organic or functional
origin .
Dementia : ( n )
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