When dropping out of school is a deadly decision
USA – Failure to get a diploma is linked to a surprisingly large percentage of premature deaths.
USA – Failure to get a diploma is linked to a surprisingly large percentage of premature deaths.
NY – The young, close-knit, predominantly female students in SUNY Canton’s mortuary school are fascinated with our most difficult, yet unavoidable, subject. But when it comes to changing attitudes about death, are educational programs like the one they’re in part of the problem?
NJ – At Kean University, students are dying (as it were) to get into Norma Bowe’s class “Death in Perspective,” which has sometimes carried a three-year waiting list. On one field trip to a local coroner’s office, Dr. Bowe’s students were shown three naked cadavers on metal tables.