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April 8, 2022
Duration:
6 months
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This course includes:
6 months
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Description
This course, Living with death and dying, explores how knowledge of and beliefs about death and encounters with death affect people's lives. It will also examine the concept of a 'good death' from an individual perspective in order to enhance the quality of dying.
Course learning outcomes
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Relate beliefs about death to the meaning people attach to life
- Reflect on the way in which death structures life
- Critically evaluate now new encounters with death affect perspectives upon life
- Assess the quality of dying
- Critically examine the notion of a ‘good death’ in relation to individual experience.
Course Curriculum
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- Living with death and dying 00:05:00
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- Death and Tolstoy 00:10:00
- How do others find meaning in life? 00:10:00
- The effect of death on life 00:05:00
- Theravada Buddhism 00:05:00
- Together Forever 00:10:00
- Margaret 00:10:00
- Nick 00:15:00
- Reactions to near-death experiences 00:15:00
- Sense of death 00:20:00
- The impact of near-death experiences 00:10:00
- A psychological explanation for near-death experiences 00:10:00
- Conclusion 00:05:00
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