Question1.
As you have learned from Chapter 3 ( The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying (10th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.) of your textbook, there is considerable cross-cultural variation in death rituals. This forum asks you to pick one of the cultures listed below and review all listed resources for that culture’s death rituals. Use those resources to address the following questions.
Summarize the most essential elements of the rituals. What do the members of the chosen culture believe about death and the afterlife? What do their rituals involve? What is your reaction to these rituals—do they disturb you, and if so, why?
Compare and contrast what you learned about the other culture with American death rituals.
Be sure to cite the sources you use (including your book) in all your posts. Provide references for all citations.
Discussion Resources
Madagascar and the Famadinhana
Bearak, B. (2010, September 5). Dead join the living in a family celebration. The New York Times.https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A236463725/AONE?u=lincclin_fccj&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=c83ad55a
Margherita. (2014, October 31). Dancing with the dead: Famadinhana. The Crowded Planet. https://www.thecrowdedplanet.com/dancing-dead-famadihana/
Munnik, J. & Scott, K. (2016, October 18). Famadihana: The family reunion where the dead get an invite. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/travel/madagascar-turning-bones/
Tibet and the Sky burial
Faison, S. (1999, July 3). Lirong Journal; Tibetans, and vultures, keep ancient burial rite. The New York Times. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A149913511/AONE?u=lincclin_fccj&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=ded0dc79
Goss, R. E., & Klass, D. (1997). Tibetan Buddhism and the resolution of grief: The Bardo-Thodol for the dying and the grieving. Death Studies, 21(4), 377–395. https://fscj-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_FSCJ/2a9b7j/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_79352961
Sang, K. (2020, November 5). Sky burial in Tibet and Tibetan funeral customs. Tibet Travel. https://www.tibettravel.org/tibetan-local-customs/tibetan-funeral.html
Sohma, M. (2016, November 15). Sky burial: Tibet’s ancient tradition for honoring the dead. Ancient Origins. https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/sky-burial-tibet-s-ancient-tradition-honoring-dead-007016.
Tana Toraja: Living with the dead
Sayoga, P. (2021, February 16). On Boundary Between Living and the Dead. The New York Times. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A651900982/AONE?u=lincclin_fccj&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=dcf93d1b
Sieber, C. (2017, October 12). Cleaning the dead: The afterlife rituals of the Torajan people. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/oct/13/cleaning-the-dead-the-afterlife-rituals-of-the-torajan-people?CMP=share_btn_link
Swazey, K. (2013). Life that does not end with death [Video]. TED Conference.https://www.ted.com/talks/kelli_swazey_life_that_doesn_t_end_with_death
Submission
Be sure to cite and reference all assigned sources in each of your posts using APA style. Your initial post should be at least 350 words. Replies should be at least 250 words. All borrowed content should be cited. Be sure to use correct APA-style citations and references for all posts.
Question 2:
Instructions
Review the textbook’s discussion of palliative care and hospice. Next, review the additional resources below before you post. Be sure to locate at least one additional scholarly source for this forum.
Evaluate the similarities and differences between palliative care and hospice. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Are there disparities in access to either service—if so, what are they?
Discussion Resources
Bhatnagar, M., & Lagnese, K.R. (2022, March 18). Hospice care. StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537296/
Center to Advance Palliative Care. (2020, June 24). Tools for making the case.https://www.capc.org/tools-for-making-the-case/
Center to Advance Palliative Care. (2020, September 14). The case for community-based palliative care.https://www.capc.org/documents/download/867/
McAteer, R., & Wellbery, C. (2013). Palliative care: benefits, barriers, and best practices. American Family Physician, 88(12), 807–813.
Hospice Foundation of America. (n.d.). Hospice care and resources: What is hospice?https://hospicefoundation.org/Hospice-Care
Submission
Be sure to cite and reference all assigned sources in each of your posts using APA style. Your initial post should be at least 350 words. Replies should be at least 250 words. All borrowed content should be cited. Be sure to use correct APA-style citations and references for all posts.
Questions 3:
Instructions
Using peer-reviewed scholarly articles, distinguish between suicide prevention and suicide postvention. How are these related? Is there evidence showing that one is more effective at deterring additional suicides, or are both equally effective?
Discussion Resources
Use at least three of the following resources in your initial post and response to this forum.
Abbate, L., Chopra, J., Poole, H., & Saini, P. (2022). Evaluating postvention services and the acceptability of models of postvention: A systematic review. Omega, 302228221112723. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228221112723
Aguirre, R. T., & Slater, H. (2010). Suicide postvention as suicide prevention: Improvement and expansion in the United States. Death Studies, 34(6), 529–540. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481181003761336
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Jordan J. R. (2017). Postvention is prevention—The case for suicide postvention. Death Studies, 41(10), 614–621. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2017.1335544
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Larsen, Nicholas, J., & Christensen, H. (2016). A systematic assessment of smartphone tools for suicide prevention. PloS One, 11(4), e0152285–e0152285. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152285
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Mann, J. J., Michel, C. A., & Auerbach, R. P. (2021). Improving suicide prevention through evidence-based strategies: A systematic review. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(7), 611–624. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20060864
Platt, S., & Niederkrotenthaler, T. (2020). Suicide prevention programs: Evidence base and best practice. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 41(Suppl 1), S99–S124. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000671
Submission
Be sure to cite and reference all assigned sources in each of your posts using APA style. Your initial post should be at least 350 words.
Question 4:
To uncover your experiences and reactions, complete the following steps:
First, complete the brief survey about your attitudes toward death and dying.
Second, complete the childhood loss inventory. The inventory asks you to list your childhood losses, making sure to describe the loss or death (who, when, how, and what happened) and how that loss or death affected you emotionally, cognitively, behaviorally, socially, and physically. Be sure to review your answers to the survey, noting which questions were hard for you to answer. Use the first activity in this section, Childhood Loss Inventory, to do this.
Third, do the same thing for losses in your life from young adulthood to the present time, following the same format you used for the childhood losses by completing the Adult Loss Inventory to brainstorm and record other death and loss events in your life as an adult.
Submit the answers to the survey and your childhood and adulthood loss inventories for a grade before you draft the essay. This part of the assignment is worth 50 points toward your final grade. Submit the survey and inventories in Module 4.
Survey
Directions: This questionnaire is a version of a research tool called the “Death Attitudes Profile- Revised.” It consists of a number of statements related to different attitudes toward death, including fear of death (7 questions), death avoidance (5 questions), neutral acceptance (5 questions), approach acceptance (10 questions), and escape acceptance (5 questions). The overall score isn’t important, but filling in the questionnaire should make you more aware of your attitude toward death. For example, if you marked a majority of questions in the first section as strongly agree, your scores would indicate an elevated level of fear about death.
Fear of death involves fear of the unknown, fear of pain and suffering, and fear of non-existence. Death avoidance means that the person refuses to talk about or confront death. Approach acceptance of death means that the individual views death as a reward, while escape acceptance means that the person sees death as a way to run away from pain and suffering. Finally, neutral acceptance means that the person rationally accepts death as an inevitable stage of life.
Download the Survey
Death Attitude Survey
You are required to rate yourself using the given survey and submit it as part of the assignment requirements.
Childhood Loss Inventory
Directions: Reflect on your earliest memories of loss and death. Describe the “story” of your experience and respond to the following questions:
Using a Word document, answer each question for each loss or death. Please include the questions in the document and be sure to use complete sentences and correct grammar. You will use these questions to help you write the self-analysis essay.
Who or what did you lose? How old were you? If the loss was a death, how did the person or pet die?
What were your reactions? Be sure to touch upon changes in emotions, cognitions, behaviors, and physical well-being. If you do not remember one or more of these elements, please report that and explain why you cannot remember.
How did your friends, family, neighbors, etc., react?
In what ways do you feel you were supported or not supported at that time?
What, if anything, helped you to recover or feel better?
In what ways did this loss experience influence your reaction to subsequent losses in your life?
Adulthood Loss Inventory
Directions: Reflect on your memories of loss and death as an adult. Describe the “story” of your experience and respond to the following questions:
Use the same Word document to answer each question for each loss or death. Be sure to include the questions along with your answers. Again, be sure to use complete sentences and correct grammar. You will use these questions to help you write the self-analysis essay.
Who or what did you lose? How old were you? If the loss was a death, how did the person or pet die (natural causes, disease, traumatic death, suicide, etc.)?
To what extent did you contact any palliative or hospice care institutions? If you did, what was that like?
Were you involved in planning a funeral or memorial for the person or pet? If you were, what was that like?
What were your reactions to the loss or death? Be sure to touch upon changes in emotions, cognitions, behaviors, and physical well-being. If you do not remember one or more of these elements, please report that and explain why you cannot remember.
How did your friends, family, neighbors, etc., react?
In what ways do you feel you were supported or not supported at that time?
What, if anything, helped you to recover or feel better?
In what ways have your loss experiences as an adult prepared you to deal with your own death?