Course Outline and Requirements

1. General Introduction
2. "Death and You" - Psychology Today Questionnaire
3. The Death of Ivan Illych: A Case Study
4. The Stages of Death - lecture based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' work
5. Doctors, Health Specialists and the Dying
6. Preparatory Grief
7. The Stages of Grief:
8. Funeral Rites as Rites of Passage
9. Defining Death, Legally and Otherwise
10. Transplantations and the Use of Neo-morts
11. "The Right to Die" - possible film Euthanasia
12. Suicide
13. Infanticide
14. "How Could I Not be Among You" - film and poetry, discussion
15. Approaches to Death's Meaning
16. The Resurrection of the Body and Death's Meaning
17. Edgar Cayce: A Case Study (G.L.) - Dr. Peter Alimaras
18. Psyche, Soma and Death
19. "The Commodification of Death"
20. Mass Death and Total Annihilation
21. TRIAGE - a group experiment
22. Infants, children and death
23. Death's meaning: The Final Stage of Growth
24. The Death of Socrates: A Case Study
25. Sports and Death
26. Out-of-body experiences
27. The Funeral Industry
28.  
1. Anne Sexton: A Case Study
2. Sylvia Plath: A Case Study
3. Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Case Study
29. Pictorial Art and Death
30. The Role of Religious Faith in Death and Dying
31. Music and Death
32. Death in the Cinema
33. Senecide
34. Genocide
35. Abortion
36. Capital Punishment
37. Psychic Phenomena and the Post-Mortem Survival Hypothesis
38. Animals - (Experimentation & Vegetarianism)