ABSTRACT
A pioneer in the death awareness movement, Dr. John D. Morgan deals with a wide range of topics in the field of death and bereavement as an educator, author, lecturer, and program organizer. In 1997 he received an award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling for his work in death education. Born in San Francisco and holding a doctorate from the University of Southern California, Dr. Morgan has resided in Canada since 1963. He is Professor of Philosophy, King’s College, University of Western Ontario, and Coordinator of the King’s College Centre for Education about Death and Bereavement. Dr. Morgan introduced the formal study of death and bereavement to Canadian universities in 1967 at Loyola College in Montreal. It is believed to be the first regularly scheduled course about death taught anywhere. He has designed and coordinates what has become an extremely successful interdisciplinary program about death and bereavement at King’s College. The King’s College-University of Western Ontario Certificate in Palliative Care and Thanatology is one of only a handful of such programs in North America.
