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Exam #2
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 4
11/07/2011

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St Augustine
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suicide is a sin in 10 Commandments - "thou shall not kill"
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St Thomas Aquinas
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suicide is sin of natural law
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Natural Law
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unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct - life is God's gift to humans, suicide is against God's will
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Islam Views on Suicide
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suicide is sin because goes against Allah
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Buddhism Views on Suicide
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taking of human life is great sin; Ahimsa - against injuring others & self
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Hinduism Views on Suicide
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completely against suicide; life is precious
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Freud (on suicide)
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2 elements relating to suicide - wish to kill & wish to be killed; guilt turns aggression against others into aggression vs self
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Adler
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to be human is to feel inferior & have low self-esteem; turn into rage against self & others
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Eissler
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suicide is revolt against death; condemned cheats executioner
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Durkheim
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social conditions influence suicide
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Egoistic
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find impossible to integrate into society so commit suicide
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Anomistic
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have deep boredom with everything so commit suicide
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Altruistic
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sacrifice life for community/religion - volunteer to get into life threatening situations for greater cause
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Shneidman
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psychache - many commonalities/goals of suicide
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Commonalities of Suicide
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seeking solution, cessation of consciousness, intolerable psychological pain, frustrated psychological needs, hopelessness/helplessness, ambivalence, perceptual constriction, eggression, communicating intention, consistency with life long coping patterns
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Rational Suicide
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idea of cheating executioner to reduce amount of pain & suffering
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Learned Helplessness
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cannot change or control own responses so learn that are helpless so behave in self-destructive way
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Voodoo Death
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belief in sorcery, rituals, curses & spells - mind has fatal powers based on customs
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Freud (on grief)
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grief is hard work, a lot of energy is used to adjust reality & do reality testing; "Work of Mourning"
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Klein
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grief is an illness - natural & common
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Lindemann
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grief vs acute grief, symptoms of grief became subject of research
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Parkes
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bereavement associated with illness
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Marris
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resistance to make change when experiencing grief
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Commonalities of Grief
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denial/disbelief, separation anxiety, depression, guilt, renewed sense of hope, re-entry
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Commonalities of Dying Process
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denial, rage & anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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Patient Care Partnership
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patient has right to know truth about their illness & be informed; truth telling, informed consent to receive treatment, right to refuse treatment
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Grannum Test
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don't have to be rational to be competent
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In Re Yetter
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refused to have breast cancer surgery because wanted to have children - ruled competent
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Pallative Care
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comfort to reduce physical & emotional pain even though illness cannot be cured
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Doulas
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volunteers with special training to provide emotional, spiritual, comfort, companionship & social support in final hours of life
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Socrates
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anamnesis - human elements of consciousness sprang from seeds of inherent knowledge in the soul
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Exclusion of Absolute Opposites
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contradictory statements cannot both at the same time be true
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Zeno
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destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment; relationship between cosmic determinism & human freedom
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"Meditations"
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series of personal writings of Marcus Aurelius that stressed self-discipline, virtue & inner-tranquility; death is inevitable, must accept sometime
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