CASE RELATED TO DEATH

Case Related To Death

Case Related To Death

Introduction

Death and attendant matters have been seminal topics of reflection, disputatious debate, and other modes of social discourse since the dawn of civilization and, presumably, also among the people who predate civilization.

My mother was newly diagnosed with Cancer, she is facing the death in near future, I have a brother and father, they are the same as me, facing this end-of-life care to my mother.

Over the centuries, scholars of many stripes have spoken to the matter of death and documented their musings. Philosophers have pondered the meaning of life and death. Theologians have posited notions and persuasions with regard to eschatological scenarios. Historians have documented myriad configurations of death-related behavior from the past. Poets and novelists have waxed eloquently on their conceptualizations of death and dying. Archeologists have discovered ancient ruins and artifacts and interpreted the meanings of such discoveries with concern for the patterns of life and death among ancient peoples.

Scientists and medical doctors have probed the physiological dimensions of life and death. Nursing home or residential home deaths are associated with old age and are seen as being good deaths. The people are usually very old and die of natural causes i.e. old age. Many people go into a residential home because they are unable to cope at home on their own and most are still very able to do things for them selves and tend to reside there for many years. Li (Workbook 1, p100) had been living in residential care for 5 years before she died. Her death was seen in a positive manner as she died at a good age and never saw death as scary because of her religion. Being from a Chinese culture, Li had prepared for her death and died with all her beliefs being adhered to and with her family beside her. (Wong And Chan 2007)

Thus, by the twentieth century, an enormous body of literature, information, and knowledge focusing on death and dying, and related matters from many intellectual and academic perspectives, had accumulated. Curiously missing from this corpus of knowledge was any significant contributions from the academic disciplines of psychology and sociology, although it is true that Freud (whose life and career spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) had spoken of topics such as the difference between mourning and melancholia and the process of dealing with death.

Evaluation of the Model

Kubler-Ross's model have five stages. A patient may demonstrate aspects of all five stages in one interview or may fluctuate between stages. Moreover, patients may exhibit other coping methods—such as terror, humor, or compassion—to offset each stage. This model is criticized as a highly subjective interpretation in which observation and intuition has been expended into unwarranted generalization. The role of situational and personal factors has been minimized. In addition too, this model generates unrealistic expectation, that patient will follow the predetermined pattern, among both public and health professionals. The emotional reactions to terminality vary across individual, and to a greater ...