July 12, 2002

Teaching About Death

To the Editor:

A student in my senior seminar in psychology a few years ago recommended Tuesdays With Morrie as a reading for the class ("Education for the End of Life," The Review, June 7). ... The class voted to read it. What transpired was an outpouring of ... grief that shocked me in its intensity. One student revealed for the first time that she had lost two siblings to murder. Another told of how her best friend from high school had died over a year before from cancer, and how