For my third blog response, I read an article from the Los Angeles Times titled “Finding Life’s Meaning In Death”. My mom found this article and since she liked it so much, she gave it to me to read. Once I started reading it I was intrigued. This article by Erika Hayasaki was written about a college class where students visit the dead, the dying, and convicted criminals, including murders, all to appreciate their life a little more. The author started out by telling us of a fieldtrip the class took to see an autopsy performed. Some students were okay with watching this procedure being done, but many were not and had to leave the room. The teacher of this class followed up the fieldtrip by having her students write a “goodbye letter” to someone they had lost. Having to look at a dead body would have been too much for me alone, but having to write such an emotional latter would have put me over the edge. The truth is, it did for most of the students as well, but even when some of them were in tears while reading their letters, their teacher urged them to finish to the end. Throughout the semester, the students visited terminally sick people and studied their deaths, as well as talked to people that had actually killed their own loved ones. I had never heard of a class like this before, but I was certainly interested. I think a class like this would be very beneficial because appreciating your life is a big step in growing up and accepting responsibility. Too many young people are careless with their lives and end up being hurt or hurting a loved one, and I think that if these types of people took this course, they would think more about the decisions they make. I really liked reading this article and hope that I get an opportunity to experience a class like this one day.
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