May 11
I am sorry it gets to be some longer times between posts. My class I've been taking down here in San Diego ended this past Friday (May 8). I finished with an A- but that is ok with me. It was a very interesting class as I had hoped for. We learned about how various religions and cultures view death, dying, and the afterlife -- Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. In the second half of the course, we focused on more grieving issues from the deaths of children; how to approach children in terms of when someone dies whether it be a parent, sibling, or friend; how hospital personnel cope with their own work seeing death so often (including chaplains); and, one of the more interesting topics of Death and Inequality (how some people in disadvantaged situations don't have the same opportunities because of insurance or lacking of funds to "properly repose of their loved one." I found the religions very cool to learn about. Christianity is exactly...