This work was undertaken with a view to developing a textbook for United
States secondary schools on the subject of death and dying through a religious lens.
The purpose of this work is to provide high school teens with the means of coping
with loss and a foundation for crafting their own meaning of life and death.
Taking a close look at death attitudes among young people in the United
States, as well as high school faculty and staff for the purpose of determining whether
or not death education can be provided for public high school students, the work starts
from the premise that said death education, using a religious model, should be
provided for teenagers because the religious model provides the necessary elements of
idea, ritual, and community, so necessary for building a world-view. Research was
conducted in the form of survey and historical review to determine the efficacy of the
proposed course of study.
Upon analysis of the available information on death education history and
course offering, as well as analysis of the survey results, the conclusion was reached
that the provision of death education in the nation‟s public high schools would go a
long way to reducing death anxiety amongst United States teenagers, and also give the
adolescents a model for creating their own sense of meaning for all of life that
includes death. / Religious Studies and Arabic / D. Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/4775 |
| Date | 09 1900 |
| Creators | Ruffin, Ro Turner |
| Contributors | Lubbe, G. J. A. (Dr.), Forward, M. (Dr.) |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource ( |
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