DEATH EDUCATION
THANATOLOGY & TABOO
☕ DEATH CAFÉ
FORMAL vs. INFORMAL
THE FOUR DIMENSIONS
100

This is the study of death, dying, and bereavement.



What is death education?


100

This term refers to the study of death and is described in the lecture as “the study of life with death left in.”


What is thanatology?


100

A Death Café is a gathering where people have open and respectful conversations about this topic.


What is death?


100

A college psychology course is an example of this type of death education.


What is formal death education?


100

“What do we know?” represents this dimension.


What is cognitive?


200

Death education asks us to consider what we know, what we feel, what we do, and this.


What is what we value?


200

Historically, death was often considered inappropriate for scholarly research, education, and this.


What is public discussion?


200

Death Café gatherings began in this country in 2004.


What is Switzerland?


200

Learning about death from your family is an example of this type of education.


What is informal death education?


200

“What do we feel?” represents this dimension.


What is affective?


300

Death education is more than simply learning about how people do this.


What is die?


300

This movement emerged during the late 1960s and early 1970s and contributed to developments in death education and hospice care.


What is the death-awareness movement?


300

Death Café expanded to this city in 2011.


What is London?


300

Name TWO sources of informal death education.


Family, life experiences, society, media, pop culture, internet, or teachable moments.


300

“What do we do?” represents this dimension.


What is behavioral?


400

Studying death can increase awareness of our limitations, resilience, quality of life, and this.


What is meaning?


400

Name ONE reason people may feel uncomfortable talking about death.


Fear, emotion, social norms, culture, personal beliefs, or personal experience.


400

Death Café is NOT therapy, grief counseling, a support group, or this.


What is a religious service?


400

Community workshops and training programs fall under this category.


What is formal death education?


400

“What do we value?” represents this dimension.


What is valuational?


500

The lecture describes death education as an opportunity to understand this broader experience surrounding mortality.


What is the human experience?


500

True or False: There is one universal reason why every person is uncomfortable discussing death.


What is False?


500

The purpose of Death Café is NOT to make everyone comfortable with death. Instead, it creates space for people to do these three things.


What are talk, listen, and reflect/question?



500

Watching a movie about death and developing beliefs about mortality would be considered this type of education.


What is informal death education?


500

A student learns how to communicate appropriately with someone who is grieving. Which dimension is being demonstrated?


What is the behavioral dimension?