A study by Lofland (1979) on dying suggests that
a. basic personality traits during life are not good predictors of how one will face death.
b. people can decide how much activity to devote to the dying role.
c. old people experience a different process of dying than young people.
d. people have no choices in the way that they die.
ANSWER: b
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