1.) Explain how responses to self-inventories in the text regarding facts, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about death reflect our societal understanding or lack thereof understanding of death. I think the self-inventory question reflects both our understanding and lack of understanding of death-related topics. I knew some of the answers to the inventory questions without looking at them, but some of the answers actually surprised me. The question regarding the death certificate was one of the questions that really surprised me. I assumed before taking inventory that each death certificate had a specific cause of death that was listed on the certificate. Another answer that surprised me is that measles kills more people in third world countries than AIDS. The inventory actually makes you think about all aspects of death. Differentiate between attitudes, experiences, beliefs, and feelings about death-related topics. Attitudes refer to our action tendencies. Beliefs refer to our relatively stable and broad interpretations of the world and our place in it. Feelings provide us with qualitative information about our total sense of being. Experiences are the things we experience in life that help shape our attitudes, beliefs, and feelings. Each is important in development, but each is also different. Attitude is how we react, or perhaps how we don't react. Your attitude may change every five minutes. Beliefs are the things that help us know who we are. Your beliefs don't change like your attitude. Most people feel more passionate about their beliefs. Our feelings let us know that we are hurt, and it happens. Our feelings help us develop our beliefs and attitude. Give an example of how your own experiences may have impacted your feelings and beliefs about death. When my grandmother died, I felt very bad, I had never felt like that before. It's hard to explain what I really felt. I remember staying alone most of the time. I never wanted to hear anyone else talk about it or talk about her. Eventually, I realized that this was how they grieved, by talking about her and never letting her go from their hearts. I still don't like talking about his death, but I won't be upset if someone else brings it up. I'm still not sure of my beliefs about death. There are so many... middle of paper... who end up going crazy if they have no way to deal with their grief. Changing the ways of living and dying is how society has dealt with different types of life-threatening diseases in the past and the deadly diseases we face today. Life expectancy rates today are much higher than in the past. The life expectancy rate for women is several years higher than that for men. This is due to better medical conditions and technology in our society today. In the early 1900s, the leading causes of death were pneumonia, influenza and tuberculosis. In the 1940s, heart disease became the leading cause of death in the United States and remained there. In the future, in the United States, contagious diseases will be at the top of the list. Tuberculosis is expected to make a comeback in situations like HIV/AIDS. I think changes happen in the death system because time and experiences change everything. As the..