week 1 death and dying

Choose one of the following topics and write a 3-4 page paper.

· Write a personal essay on the first time death impacted your life or write about the most significant death to date. Does this death continue to affect you yet today? (Use only your experience nothing from a text book or other sources). You will find that this essay will set the tone for you in this class.

· Critically analyze the shifts in attitude which Ivan Illyich's friend experiences in Chapter 1 and 2. Relate them to the ideas of death anxiety and death denial in the Kastenbaum reading.  Use this link to the story.

· http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/death-of-ivan-ilych/1/

· or

· http://academics.triton.edu/uc/files/ivan.html