Title: Identify the stages of dying.
Course: Introduction to Mortuary Science (14299) > Section: Exploring the Purposes, Procedures, and Values of Funeral Services

Identification should include

- body system shutdown
- disorientation or confusion
- level of consciousness
- changes in circulation to extremities
- changes in skin color
- labored breathing
- physical weakness
- loss of appetite
- incontinence
- hearing/sensory
- legal definition of death.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is skin slip?
- What is the last sense to leave a dying person?
- What is the legal definition of death?