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wenmo

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Which is true regarding the elderly in the United States?
 
  a. The elderly do not seem reluctant to talk about dying and death, but others are reluctant to talk to them about dying and death.
  b. Research suggests that older adults think of death more often than younger adults but appear to have less fear concerning death.
  c. Older adults tend to see their lives as having few prospects for the future and less value.
  d. Research suggests that the widowed tend to be more fearful of death than the elderly married or remarried.
  e. all of the above.

Question 2

The panic begins for many middle-aged Americans regarding the thought of death. Which is the correct reason for this?
 
  a. Realization that the remaining years of life are fewer than those already lived
  b. Realization that after ones parents are dead, the buffer zone is gone
  c. If ones job depends on physical vigor, the realization that physical strength is beginning to wane
  d. All of the above
  e. Only a and b



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ciecieme

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Answer to Question 1

e.

Answer to Question 2

d.



wenmo

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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