Death and Bereavement

INSTRUCTIONS:

Analyze how eight American songs in popular music handle topics of death, dying, and bereavement. 

Your analysis should examine themes pertinent to this course that you find expressed in each song.  It is not necessary that the same theme(s) be expressed in each song although such similarity could give your project clear focus.  Your analysis needs to do more than summarize the words of the song and the theme(s) such words express.  You need to explain the themes by examining what literature (the course materials and at least two other written sources) has to say about the themes, and you need to examine and assess how well (if at all) the songs present these themes.

The format of the analysis should be:

• A brief synopsis of each song including the title and artist (3-4 pages).

• Critical analysis of thanatology themes the songs express and how the songs express those themes (5-7 pages)

• Assessment of the value of these songs as vehicles to present ideas important to thanatology (1-2 pages).  Give reasons to support your assessment. 

• CHOOSE 4 SOURCES

****Course Book***

Corr, C.A. & Corr, D. (2018).  Death and dying, life and living (8th ed.)  ISBN 978-1-337-56389-5, Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. 

****Other Course Material in case you can’t access the book. Here are (4) sets of free public sources to choose from***

1View on You Tube  “Death & Dying:  Cultural & Religious Perspectives”  (10:20)

View Ira Byock (2008):  “Are Americans particularly afraid of death?”  (On website, “BigThink.com”)

Ira Byock (2008) “What is the consolation of faith in the face of death?”  (Bigthink.com)

NY Times:  “A Racial Gap in Attitudes Toward Hospice Care.”

Quaran Speaks (2014) “Islamic Way of Dealing with Death (On You Tube)

Ira Byock (2008):  Why Are We So afraid of death?”  (Bigthink.com)

George Dvorsky (2021) “How We died 200 years ago, compared to how we die today” (article to read online)

You Tube:  The Memory Place:  Samuel Finley Breese Morse

“Hidden Brain” on NPR:  “The Bomb that Didn’t Explode”  (read and/or listen to program)

     2Atul Gawande (2014)  “What doctors don’t learn about death & dying”  (@ ideas.ted.com)

B.J. Miller (2015)  “What really matters at end of life”  (a Ted Talk)

Boom Cymru (2018)  “The Curious Era of Death Photography” (BBC.co.uk)

Listen to Fresh Air, on NPR, 2014 “A Mortician Talks Openly about death, and wants you to, too.”

B.J. Miller (2015) How to Prepare for a Good Death (on ideas.ted.com)

Kathryn Mannix (2018) “Dying is not as bad as you think” (on You Tube – BBC ideas)

View on You Tube:  “A Good Death:  The inside story of a hospice”  (from Sky News, 8/2/17)

On You Tube:  PBS Frontline episode (2015) “Being Mortal”

Ira Byock (2008) “The downsides of dying in a hospital” (bigthink.com)

Ira Byock (2008) “Why is end of life care neglected by the medical profession” (bigthink.com

3View Nancy Berns (2012) “Beyond Closure” (You Tube – Tedx Talks)

Geoff Warburton (2012) “The Adventure of Grief” (You Tube – Tedx Talks)

View on You Tube:  “Helping a Friend through Grief”

View on You Tube:  “Grief:  Am I Going Crazy?”  H. Norman Wright/Grief Share

      Also on You Tube:  “How to Help Someone Who is Grieving” – from the BBC

On You Tube:  “Dying to Know”  What Patients and Families Want to Know about End of Life Care and Issues”

You Tube:  “Why You Should Do the Five Wishes”

You Tube:  “Making Your Death Plan!”

Ira Byock (2008) “Is there an ethical limit to prolonging life”  (bigthink.com)

Read:  Assisted Dying:  The Ongoing Debate – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585714/

On You Tube:  Beyond Oregon:  Should terminally ill patients be allowed to choose death?

On You Tube:  “Assisted Suicide/Harriet Scott’s Story/Last Right Series”  11/4/13

4View on You Tube:  “Dr. Jen Ashton on Healing Herself and her family after her ex-husband’s suicide.”

View on You Tube from CBS Sunday Morning from 3/17/19, “One Teenager’s Tragic Hidden Secret,” about 9.15 minutes long, about Alexandra Valora

View “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory” by Dr. Bachyrycz, about 16 minutes long

View:  from Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, “When Breath Becomes Air” with Paul Kalanathi, about 5.51 mins. Long.

View on www.ted.com, Paul Kalanathi’s wife, Lucy, “What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death” about 15.56 mins. long

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