F Dying and Death

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54 hours lecture per term. This course includes various perspectives on death, both cross-cultural and historical. Examines beliefs, traditions, rituals and practices surrounding death in the U.S.; health care systems (the hospital and the dying patient, hospice, etc.); death and the process of dying; bioethics – dying in the technology age; euthanasia, suicide, funerals, grief, and bereavement; the law and death, including living wills, organ donation, and autopsies; and life after death – old and new meanings. Field trips may be required outside of regularly-scheduled class times. (Degree Credit) (CSU) (UC) AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC