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| 5 | Grief and Mourning | LD Ch 7 | Take home test given | |
| 10 | Emotionally Facing Death | LD Ch 5 | Journal 1; test due |
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| 11 | Last Will and Testament | LD Ch 9 |
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| 12 | Cemeteries and Religious Views of the Afterlife | LD Chs 8 & 14 |
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| 13 | Modern Technology | LD Ch5 |
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| 17 | Hospices and Nursing Homes | LD Ch4 | First Paper Draft Due; Journal
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| 18 | Organ Donation: Why Don't People Donate? | LD Ch9 |
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| 19 | Assisted Suicide and Mass Suicide | LD Ch6 | Take-Home Test Due |
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| 24 | Mourning in Different Cultures | LD Ch2 | Journal 3: Take Home Test Given |
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| 26 | How Children Deal with Death; | LD Ch10 | Take Home Test Due |
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| 27 | The financial consequences of death; Suicide | LD Chs 11&12 | Final Paper draft due; Journal 4 |
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Schedule Spring 1999
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| 1: Introduction | T Feb 2 | Complete the Personal Information Sheet, including top 3 preferences for presentation topics, with an explanation of why you would be a good choice to do those presentations. Choose from the list of topic in the right-hand column. | ||
| R 4 | LD: Chapter 1: Attitudes towards Death: A Climate of Change | |||
| 2: Attitudes towards Death | T 9 | LD: Chapter 2: Perspectives on Death: Cross-Cultural and Historical | ||
| R 11 | DCP: Judith Strupp Green: The Days of the Dead in Oaxac, Mexico (88) | Test 1 (1%) | ||
| 3: Learning About Death | R 18 | LD:
Chapter 3: Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces
DCP: Michael C. Kearl: Death in Popular Culture (23) |
Journal due | |
| 4: Health Care Systems | T 23 | LD: Chapter 4: Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions | ||
| R 25 | DCP: Marian Gentile and Maryanne Fello: Hospice Care for the 1990s: A Concept Coming of Age (147) | Test 2 (2%) | Hospice Care on Long Island, by Scott Hughes | |
| 5: Facing Death | T March 2 | LD Chapter 5: Facing Death: Living with Life Threatening-Illness | Journal due | Kubler-Ross’ model of coming to terms with death, and criticisms of it, by Josephine Gracchi |
| R 4 | DCP:
Peter A. Metcalf: Death Be Not Strange (83)
DCP: Ernest Becker: The Terror of Death (31) |
Test 3 (3%) | ||
| 6: Medical Ethics | T 9 | LD Chapter 6: Medical Ethics: Dying in a Technological Age | Paper Topics Given | What is it Like to Die in Hospital? by Vishal Chaudri |
| R 11 | DCP:
Willard Gaylin: Harvesting the Dead (310)
DCP: Robert Jay Lifton: The Nazi "Euthanasia" Program (299) |
Organ Donation on Long Island: Needs and Services, by Michael Lospinuso | ||
| 7: Loss and Bereavement | T 16 | LD: Chapter 7: Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss | Test 4 (3%); Journal due | |
| R 18 | DCP:
Erich Lindeman: Symptomology and Management of Acute Grief (185)
DCP: Terese Rando: Unresolved Grief (203) |
Test 5 (3%) | Cultural Differences in Mourning Processes, by Charles Barkley | |
| 8: Funerals | T 23 | LD: Chapter 8: Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition | ||
| R 25 | DCP:
Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Death (163)
DCP: Vanderlyn R. Pine: Public Behavior in the Funeral Home (168) |
Test 6 (3%) | Kinds and Costs of Funerals on Long Island, by Kevin Granville | |
| 9: Legal Issues | T 30 | LD: Chapter 9: The Law and Death | Journal due | What is the legal definition of death? What is "brain death"? by Peter Guarini |
| 10: Children and Death | T April 13 | LD: Chapter 10: Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents | First Draft of Papers Due | How do Children’s Books Portray Death?, by Luis Bautista |
| R 15 | DCP:
Myra Bluebond-Langer: Worlds of Dying Children and Their Well Siblings
(235)
DCP: Beverly Raphael: The Death of a Child (261) |
Test 7 (3%) | Should Children with Terminal Illnesses Be Told that They Will Probably Die?, by Maria LoBianco | |
| 11: Coping with Death | T 20 | LD: Chapter 11: Death in the Lives of Adults | Journal due | What is a Last Will and Testament? Who Carries Out the Instructions?, by Michael Murphy |
| R 22 | DCP:
Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss: The Ritual Drama of Mutual Pretense
(118)
DCP: Jaber F. Gubrium: Dying at Murray Manor (139) |
Test 8 (3%) on Chapters 10 and 11 | Retirement and Nursing Homes on Long Island, by Natalie Poska | |
| 12: Suicide | T 27 | LD: Chapter 12: Suicide | Why Do People Kill Themselves?, by Bill Colmer | |
| R 29 | DCP:
John L. McIntosh: Epidemiology of Suicide in the US (330)
DCP: Judith M. Stillon and Eugene E. McDowell: Examining Suicide from a Life Span Perspective (345) |
Test 9 (3%) | Should We Prevent People from Killing Themselves? | |
| 13: Physician Assisted Suicide | T 4 May | DCP:
Dan Brock: Voluntary Active Euthanasia (279)
DCP: Daniel Callahan: When Self-Determination Runs Amok (291) |
Journal due | Has Physician Assisted Suicide Led to Murder in Holland?, by Robert Leder |
| 14: The Death Penalty | R 7 | DCP:
Jacob Weisberg: This Is Your Death (388)
DCP: Hans Zeisel and Alec M Gallup: Death Penalty Sentiment in the US (395) |
Test 10 (3%) | Should New York Executions be Televised?, by David Inzerello |
| 15: Life After Death | T 11 | LD: Chapter 14: Beyond Death/After Life | Final Papers Due | Well-Documented Cases of Communication with the Dead |
| R 13 | DCP:
Robert Kastenbaum: Near-Death Experiences: New Evidence for Survival? (437)
DCP: Edwin S. Shneidman: The Postself (454) |
Test 11 (3%) | Cases of Near-Death Experience that Suggest that There is Life After Death | |