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“It’s good to be alive, right?” the professor often told her students . . . “Did you notice how fragile we are? We have no business taking our lives for granted.”

Living Fragility Of Life Taking Life For Granted

Book:The Death Class: A True Story About Life

Source: The Death Class: A True Story About Life

“Each stage of life is filled with unique challenges, but the ways in which each person learns to survive, according to Erikson, create character. Sometimes these lessons needed to be examined beyond textbooks, in the lives and life cycles of everyday people.”

Character Life Lessons Survival Everyday Life

Book:The Death Class: A True Story About Life

Source: The Death Class: A True Story About Life

“She believed cemeteries held the stories that history books could not always document; they were the overlooked, underused classrooms beneath our feet . . .”

History Cemeteries Untold History

Book:The Death Class: A True Story About Life

Source: The Death Class: A True Story About Life

“Norma Bowe often said she believed there was a wonder in unleashing your story, horrible as it might be, out into the world. She told her students that speaking it aloud releases a different kind of power from writing it down on paper or typing it on a computer screen. Give it voice, and you never know what kind of gift might find its way back in return.”

Storytelling Telling Your Story Having A Voice

Book:The Death Class: A True Story About Life

Source: The Death Class: A True Story About Life