anyone take a Death and Dying class?

[cozycleo]

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I met with a director of the lab sciences program this week (it's what I'm pursuing for my undergrad) and she was intrigued that my ultimate goal was vet school. Apparently they don't get many vet student hopefuls in that program. Anyway, I had told her I wanted to get into public health, and whether or not I was accepted to vet school, I was most likely going to pursue public health anyway. She suggested I take a death and dying course as well as some other disease-related courses that the university offers.

Did anyone take one? How was it? My guess is that it's geared more toward humans, but I think it could be interesting.

 

[Badger Girl]

The Death and Dying courses are usually found in the social work or psychology programs (or something similar) in schools, so I would imagine that it is human-related. I never took that course myself, however, have heard good things about it. I suppose it all depends on the school and professor, though!

 

[Bill59]

Biochem II

It felt like dying.

 

[Electrophile]

I took a medical ethics class in undergrad and a research ethics class in grad school. Both were great classes and both were very interesting. Sounds like a cool class!

 

[HurricaneKatt]

Sounds creepy morbid and depressing to me...

 

[tastrophe]

I took a "death and afterlife" class in undergrad, but it was not medical-related at all, more about different cultures' beliefs and rituals and such. Still, it was way cool and it counted as...I can't remember what anymore, but it fulfilled a requirement for graduation (and it wasn't a general elective, for the record), so double bonus for me😀

 

[TrocarKarin]

I took a class called "death, dying and bereavement." It was geared more towards humans, but it went through the stages of grief, different culture's views on death and end-of-life care. It was interesting, but I wouldn't bother with it unless you needed it for a requirement.