Death Education in the Writing Classroom.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- By the Same Author -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Life Lessons" -- Part 1: Diaries -- Chapter 1-Week One "Nervous Undergraduates Avoiding Eye Contact" -- Chapter 2-Week Two "Hearing It Made His Death More Real" -- Chapter 3-Week Three "She Helped Me Say What I Could Not Say Myself" -- Chapter 4-Week Four "There's Too Much Covering Up of Grief in America" -- Chapter 5-Week Five "We're Going to Die" -- Chapter 6-Week Six "Thinking Like a Writer" -- Chapter 7-Week Seven "I'm Sorry, I Understand" -- Chapter 8-Week Eight "Sometimes I Feel Like an Outsider in This Class" -- Chapter 9-Week Nine "I Felt As If I Were Reliving that Day" -- Chapter 10-Week Ten "There Is No Preparation for a Sight of Death" -- Chapter 11-Week Eleven "I Love You Too Much" -- Chapter 12-Week Twelve "We're Taking Risks in a Safe Place" -- Chapter 13-Week Thirteen "Write As If You Were Dying" -- Chapter 14-Week Fourteen "I Used to Cry in the Middle of the Night and Contemplate Suicide" -- Chapter 15-Week Fifteen "I Am Not Alone in This Battle" -- Part 2: Breakthroughs -- Chapter 16-Chipo "I Have to Turn My Shattered Reality into a Livable Dream" -- Chapter 17-Lia "Instead of Minimizing My Struggles, I Wrote about Them" -- Chapter 18-Shannon "It's Hard for Me to Express Emotion" -- Chapter 19-Faith "If I Could Not Write, I Would Not Survive" -- Chapter 20-Anonymous "I Will Always Remember My Unborn Baby" -- Conclusion: Reading Dying to Teach -- Appendix: Syllabus for English 450: Writing about Love and Loss -- References -- Student Writers -- Index.

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