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Can The Next Generation Of Morticians Breathe Life Into The Death Industry? by Katie Heaney is the article I read for my thirteenth TOW. This article is about the lives of morticians students, and studying to become a mortician. It also tackles larger issues that realte not only to morticians, but to everyone, topics like life and death, how the dead should be treated, who should deal with the dead, and other big ideas with the morbid thoughts that come along with interview and stepping in the lives of young students choosing the life of death. The author, Katie Heaney, asks at the beginning, "The young, close-knit, predominantly female students in SUNY Canton’s mortuary school are fascinated with our most difficult, yet unavoidable, subject. But when it comes to changing attitudes about death and grieving, are educational programs like the one they’re in part of the problem?" Throughout the piece, Heaney gives fascinating commentary on the lives of these students and why they picked their area of study, but also questions their lives, questions the things they are doing and if they make sense. For example, she questions their air of superiority because they think they are the only ones that can deal with death when in fact, they aren't special they're just better equipped. One of the students tells the story of after a close friend died, everyone in her hometown came to her for help because she was the death expert but she had no idea how to help them, or help herself in her own grieving process because how to help the living isn't taught in mortiary school. The author challenges the belief that in mortuary school, all they should be taught is how to embalm. She believes they should be able to cremate, bury, other forms of honoring the dead, and bein gthere for the emotional support of loved ones. This was very effective for this piece because the audience were questioning youth and she is one of her audience, the questioning youth that find that there is something wrong with the world and want to change it.
Can The Next Generation Of Morticians Breathe Life Into The Death Industry? by Katie Heaney is the article I read for my thirteenth TOW. This article is about the lives of morticians students, and studying to become a mortician. It also tackles larger issues that realte not only to morticians, but to everyone, topics like life and death, how the dead should be treated, who should deal with the dead, and other big ideas with the morbid thoughts that come along with interview and stepping in the lives of young students choosing the life of death. The author, Katie Heaney, asks at the beginning, "The young, close-knit, predominantly female students in SUNY Canton’s mortuary school are fascinated with our most difficult, yet unavoidable, subject. But when it comes to changing attitudes about death and grieving, are educational programs like the one they’re in part of the problem?" Throughout the piece, Heaney gives fascinating commentary on the lives of these students and why they picked their area of study, but also questions their lives, questions the things they are doing and if they make sense. For example, she questions their air of superiority because they think they are the only ones that can deal with death when in fact, they aren't special they're just better equipped. One of the students tells the story of after a close friend died, everyone in her hometown came to her for help because she was the death expert but she had no idea how to help them, or help herself in her own grieving process because how to help the living isn't taught in mortiary school. The author challenges the belief that in mortuary school, all they should be taught is how to embalm. She believes they should be able to cremate, bury, other forms of honoring the dead, and bein gthere for the emotional support of loved ones. This was very effective for this piece because the audience were questioning youth and she is one of her audience, the questioning youth that find that there is something wrong with the world and want to change it.
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