Death, Dying, and Bereavement

    Interview someone--or more than one person--who has had direct experience with death and/or dying. You may wish to interview two people about the same issue. Some possibilities include: • someone who has had someone close to him/her die; his/her spiritual advisor (rabbi, priest, minister, etc.); • a case worker at a hospice; a dying person at a hospice; someone who doesn′t work with hospice but who treats terminally ill people; • a person in a nursing home; their care givers; their insurers; • clergy and funeral directors; • someone with AIDS; someone who works with AIDS patients; • a cop; a medic;   Consider the following questions (these are only suggestions--what questions could you add? Which are irrelevant to you? Why?): What did you expect? What did you find? How did you influence what you discovered? What did you forget/not think to ask? Who is this person? Did anything they say corroborate or contradict the theories we′ve been reading/discussing in class? What did they know that the theorists didn′t? Which parts of the interview were most compelling to you? Why? Which parts will you focus on/use in writing up this project?