Readings for Psychology of Death and Loss

The following links will take you to the Focus Task readings for Psychology of Death and Loss (Psyc 456):

“Mourning in America” by Beth Baker
(www.u.arizona.edu/~vas/mourn.htm)

"I'd Pick More Daisies"
(www.u.arizona.edu/~vas/daisies.htm)

“Impermanence” by Sogyal Rinpoche
(www.u.arizona.edu/~vas/imperm.pdf)

“Sonnet XXX” by William Shakespeare
(www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/poetry/shake.html)

“No Goodbyes” by Paul Monette
(www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/poetry/monette.html)

“Roundtable:  Grief and Bereavement”
(www.npr.org/programs/death/971125.death.html)

An excerpt from “A River Runs Through It” by Norman Maclean
(www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/maclean.html)

“For a Radiant Star” by Ken Wilber
(www.u.arizona.edu/~vas/radiant.pdf)

“His Wide Mouth Home” by J. Augustine Wetta
(www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/essays/wetta.html)

“Listening to Midlife” by Bill Dwyer
(www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc086/listeningtomidlife.html)

“Fears at 40 Something” by Paula Payne Hardin
(www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc086/fearsat40something.html)

“Life Support:  Three Nurses on the Front Lines”
(www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/essays/gordon.html)

The questions on p.327 of your textbook

A Good Death” by Pythia Peay
(www.u.arizona.edu/~vas/good.htm)

“The Unknown Soldier” by Luc Sante
(www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/sante.html)
 

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