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This 4 page paper discusses the various physical, cognitive, and bio-social factors that characterize the process of dying and the family's involvement in that process. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The process of dying is a physical process in the sense that
it is the biological termination of life. The process is also a cognitive and biosocial process, however. Indeed, when we think of death from a traditional perspective we
typically focus more on the societal and psychological considerations that surround it than we do the biological processes inherent in it. From a traditional perspective death is a
process in which the living end their societal obligations. With the slow subsidence of those particular obligations, however, other obligations are instigated. These obligations are not born out
by the individual who is in the process of dieing, of course, but instead by those who continue to live. These obligations have varied, however, over time and culture.
In general, however, there has been a gradual move away from considering death from a traditional perspective and towards viewing it only as a clinical process.
While it is true that our modern society has moved more towards approaching death more with a clinical perspective than from a personal and
spiritual perspective, many families retain a sense of their tradition. Indeed, this is true even for many of the mainstream representatives of various cultures, for those who on the outside
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