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The Death Class: A True Story about Life Hardcover - 2014
by Erika Hayasaki
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In this gripping true story, an extraordinary professor who teaches a popular course on death plunges deep into the off-campus hours of her most vulnerable students and shows them how to live.
Each year, Kean University in Union, New Jersey, offers an exclusive class called Death in Perspective. Led by Professor Norma Bowe, the objective of the class is to âÈêdevelop an understanding of the nature and experiences of the stages of dying, death, and bereavement.âÈë It has a three-year waiting list.
But as acclaimed journalist Erika Hayasaki discovers, by teaching mortality, Dr. Bowe is quietly rescuing students from tragedy. As she takes her students to cemeteries, prisons, morgues, and hospitals, she shows how the contemplation of the end can change an adultâÈçs beginning. Over the course of two years, she intervenes with one student and her suicidal mother, mentors another with a mentally ill brother, and redeems a third from his life in a gang. And in the end, the students themselves heal Dr. Bowe herself from the lingering pain of a childhood she has long repressed.
On one level, The Death Class is about the loss of life; on another level, itâÈçs a celebration of what the human spirit can conquer. ItâÈçs about how we can survive and learn to live a meaningful life.
Each year, Kean University in Union, New Jersey, offers an exclusive class called Death in Perspective. Led by Professor Norma Bowe, the objective of the class is to âÈêdevelop an understanding of the nature and experiences of the stages of dying, death, and bereavement.âÈë It has a three-year waiting list.
But as acclaimed journalist Erika Hayasaki discovers, by teaching mortality, Dr. Bowe is quietly rescuing students from tragedy. As she takes her students to cemeteries, prisons, morgues, and hospitals, she shows how the contemplation of the end can change an adultâÈçs beginning. Over the course of two years, she intervenes with one student and her suicidal mother, mentors another with a mentally ill brother, and redeems a third from his life in a gang. And in the end, the students themselves heal Dr. Bowe herself from the lingering pain of a childhood she has long repressed.
On one level, The Death Class is about the loss of life; on another level, itâÈçs a celebration of what the human spirit can conquer. ItâÈçs about how we can survive and learn to live a meaningful life.
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- Title The Death Class: A True Story about Life
- Author Erika Hayasaki
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 263
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, NY
- Date 2014-01-14
- ISBN 9781451642858 / 1451642857
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.34 x 1.03 in (23.65 x 16.10 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Thanatology, Thanatology - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013002025
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.9
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âÈêThe Death Class is at once puncturing and redemptive, sharing humanityâÈçs most painful, violent face while at the same time revealing a fierce optimism and stunning generosity. It is more than a glimpse of a remarkable educational experiment. It shares the story of an extraordinary teacher whose very life is the class while weaving together the lives of students who struggle with complex, tormenting problems and find grace in each other. Its stories have lodged in me and will not soon let me go.âÈë
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