ABSTRACT
Death educators have been content to liken themselves to early explorers and thereby merely describe the new terrain. Death educators must examine what is happening to their students, in what situations and for how long. The participants for the experimental group consisted of twenty-four graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in a death and dying seminar. The fifteen female and nine male participants represented a variety of academic disciplines. Included were Nursing, Health Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology and Religion. Both the experimental and control groups were similar in that participants completed the “Coping with Death Scale” during the first class session. Statistically significant differences were found for twenty-three of the thirty items for the experimental group. The ability to cope with others was an additional goal in the present study/seminar. Death educators must set appropriate goals for their instructional efforts.
