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| author | Jennifer Longo |
| title | Statistics Show One in Every Person Dies, Let's Talk About It |
| abstract | Medicine has changed from generation to generation. Introduction of treatment options as well as technology influences
have changed many facets of the medical field. These influences have greatly impacted how death occurs. Often death is now something that can be predicted
and ultimately processed differently. Due to these changes, medical professionals now have a new opportunity to enhance the death experience for their patients
and the patients' loved ones. This critical opportunity can be found in how death and dying wishes are discussed within the doctor/patient relationship.
If the medical community obtained the skills to have better end of life dialogue, both emotional and physical suffering of their patients can be minimized.
The history of end of life care and the modern care abilities play a role in how we should move forward with this challenge. There are certainly influential
factors, such as gender, religion, marital status, and culture, to name a few, that make the end of life conversation complex. This paper will discuss those
factors and highlight how important it is to remain sensitive to them. It will support how crucial this opportunity is to ultimately make death, which is
now often a process, a more positive, peaceful experience. Education and skill abilities are a focus of this paper as a means to bettering the medical
environment's role in the death experience. We as medical professionals need to actively improve how we talk about death and the tools which can be offered
to assist in this development. Death is an event all humans will encounter, both with loved ones as well as their selves. Medicine will continue to grow
and change, but we must strive for growth in all aspects of medicine, especially regarding the end of life process and death conversation. |
| school | The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University |
| degree | D.M.H. (2017) |
| advisor | Philip Scibilia |
| committee | Phil Linfante
Nicole Safonte Strumolo |
| full text | JLongo.pdf |
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