Death education is becoming a legitimate topic for health education curricula. This article suggests that the potential of the death education/health education relationship can be enhanced by hands-on involvement with death-related counseling. The benefits for the bereaved, the dying person, and the family are described. (MT)

Support is expressed for the current trend toward educational programs on death and dying. (GW)

Widows were interviewed to investigate how they coped with the many facets of widowhood, including intimacy-sexuality loss. Availability of family and/or friends as a source of support was found to be most important for satisfactory coping. Sexual problems, expecially frustration, were evident among many widows. (Author)

Students in a death education course were compared with students of sex education and introductory psychology. After the death education course, students viewed death as more approachable, and wished to experience death in a more interpersonal as compared to a technological context. (Author)

Deals with describing differences regarding life and death meanings between parents of so-called "children with problems" and of parents of children without such problems, and gaining some understanding and indication of the effect of a remedial, therapeutic program on the meaning of life and death. (Author)

Describes thanatologically oriented theories or conceptions which were useful to the son/thanatologist in helping his father toward an appropriate death. Particularly useful theories included a variation of stress theory developed by the author, symbolic interaction theory, psychological and social ambivalence theory, the concept of awareness of…

The author describes the course on death and dying taught at the University of Maryland, its effects on students, and mythologies about this topic. Presented at the Conference on Death and Dying: Education, Counseling, and Care, December 1-3, 1976, Orlando, Florida. (Author)

The author feels that personal concerns about death, natural or otherwise, cause anxieties which often color and mask additional personality problems. The course outlined deals with student obsession and depression about death, and seeks to encourage other health educators to include the study of death in their own classes. (CJ)

The health, physical education, recreation, and dance professions have tended to neglect the frail aged and dying aged person in the provision of training, programs, and research. The Adults Health and Developmental Program is offered as a model to help improve the quality of life for this population. (DF)

If health educators refuse to face the issue of death caused by war, hunger, and other man-made catastrophies, they may be unable to act to improve the quality of life. Local programs which encourage social well-being and resources which deal with peace on the global level are discussed. (PP)

The purpose of this paper is to describe 1.) the Death Education and Suicide Behavior course offered at the University of Maryland; 2.) the comments of the students both before and after the course as a means of determining any effect of the course; and 3.) some insights gained from teaching taboo topics such as human death and sexuality. The…