The goals of this course on death, dying and bereavement are to increase knowledge about death and about those professions involved with death such as: funeral directors, nursing and healthcare personnel, and governmental organizations. Other goals are to help students learn to cope with the deaths of people in their lives, to deal with their own mortality, to be more sensitive to the needs of others, and to become more aware of different cultural groups’ death and bereavement customs. Another distant goal is to understand the social and ethical issues concerning death as well as the value judgments involved with these issues (Leming & Dickinson,
