Death and Dying Crossword

Study of death, dying, grief, bereavement and social attitudes toward these issues
Lack of heartbeat and respiration
Declared only when the deceased meets eight criteria
Situation in which a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues
Study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences
Practice of ending life for reasons of mercy
deliberate ending of someone’s life
Practice of allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment
Process in which physicians provide dying patients with a fatal dose of medication that the patient self-administers
Feeling of anxiety or even fear of death
Theory that addresses the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality
Issues pertaining to management of the final phase of life after death disposition of the body and memorial services and distribution of assets
Way for people to make their choices known about how they do or do not want their lives to end
Approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management or palliative care and death with dignity
Care that is focused on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of disease at any point during the disease process
State or condition caused by loss through death
Psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement
View of coping with bereavement that integrates loss-oriented stressors
Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes being preoccupied with the deceased to the point that it interferes with everyday functioning
Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes disbelief about the death