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HNSC 3314 Human Encounters with Death and Bereavement

Readings & Videos

Weekly Content

  1. Weekly lecture video
  2. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2019): "Death Investigations" (22 mins video)
  3. Fresh Air audio (2014) "A Mortician Talks Openly About Death, And Wants You To, Too" (31:49)
  4. This American Life audio (1997) "Business of Death" (60 mins)
  5. Atul Gawande article (2014) "What doctors don’t learn about death and dying"
  6. BJ Miller video (2015) "What really matters at the end of life" (19:08)
  7. [OPTIONAL] Boom Cymru video (2018) “The Curious Era of Death Photography” (4:29)


Citation: LastWeekTonight (May 20, 2019) Death Investigations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (22:20) https://youtu.be/hnoMsftQPY8?si=u-z10GrR6Ss4y2C_

Citation: Terry Cross (October 8, 2014) A Mortician Talks Openly About Death, And Wants You To, Too. (31:00) Fresh Air NPR https://www.npr.org/2014/10/08/352765943/a-mortician-talks-openly-about-death-and-wants-you-to-too

Citation: Miller. BJ. (March 2015) What really matters at the end of life. TED2015 https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life

OPTIONAL VIDEO

Activities Due

  1. Longer Slack post (Sun)
  2. Two Slack replies (Wed)
  3. Session #4 Quiz on Blackboard (Wed)