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Topic
Eight: The End |
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Activate |
Famous
Last Words |
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Defining
Death •
Commission Report •
Commentary on the Report •
Commentary on the Report |
Based
on: President's
Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral
Research, 1981 |
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Oscar
the Cat •
New England Journal of Medicine •
CBS News Report |
The
story of a cat, living in a nursing home, who
seemed to be able to predict death. |
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Demonstrate |
A
Certain Point •
Graphic and linked slides with voice •
Narration |
Focusing
on the transition to wanting to hasten death, actively trying to die,
includes comments on suicide, and assisted suicide |
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Participation |
Physician’s
Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) •
Introduction •
Sample Form •
Links to all State Forms |
Comprehensive
medical orders made as a collaboration between patient and physician |
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Reflection |
Death
Quotes |
Regarding
“The End” |
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Discussion
Forum |
Questions
to respond to, free to post and remarks or comments |
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Home
Birth, Home Death •
Slides with voice •
Narration |
Teaching
how to die is teaching how to live, beginners mind, baby neuroanatomy, more in the
moment, little prefrontal cortex development |
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