Health Chapther 8
About aging and death
Terms
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- Rigamortis
- The stiffening of a body, begins after brain death, lasted about 30 hours
- Suicide
- Taking one's own life
- Embalming fluid
- process of pumping out the blood in a body and replace it with a preservation solution
- Trauma
- Injury to a living tissue(happens swiftly, auto accidents, shot, poison, fall, etc.)
- Cellular Death
- Parts of the body still alive, but without oxygen or food carried by the blood, the cells that make up these body tissues starts to die
- Funeral Director
- one whose business is the management of funerals
- Cluster Suicide
- A rash of suicides occurring with a short space of time and involving several people in the same school or community
- Aging
- Don't die from old age, but the conditions that accompany old age
- Depression
- Feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness
- Generativity
- A shift of attention away from oneself in the present to concern for future generation
- Will
- a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- Integrity
- A feeling of wholeness and contentment
- Disease
- Cancer, Pneumonia, heart attack, stoke
- Casket
- A box in which a corpse is buried or cremated, it may be open or closed
- Buried in the ground
- Body is buried in a casket- receptacle for the deceased
- Transition
- Critical change that occur at all stages of life
- Clinical Death
- Can be reversed by preforming CPR
- Brain Death
- brain cells deprived of oxygen
- Cremation
- Reduction of dead body to ashes and bone fragments by intense heat
- Mortician
- An undertaker; the family sometimes hire this person to help make their decisions
- Menopause
- The stopping of ovulation and menstuation
- Buried above ground
- Also called an Interment or Entombment
- Body and Organ Donation
- Body or organs can be donated to science or for transplantation
- Empty-nest syndrome
- Feeling of despair of loneness that accompany children leaving home and enter adulthood