Dying to teach : a memoir of love, loss, and learning / Jeffrey Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caregivers.

Death.

Eulogies.

Hospice care.

Pancreas--Cancer--Patients--Biography.

Pancreas.

Teacher-student relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Dying to Teach, Jeffrey Berman confronts the most wrenching loss imaginable: the death of his beloved wife, Barbara. Through four interrelated narratives—how Barbara wrote about her illness in a cancer diary, how he cared for her throughout her illness, how his students reacted to his disclosure that she was dying, and how he responded to her death—Berman explores his efforts to hold on to Barbara precisely as she was letting go of life. Intensely personal, Dying to Teach affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief, and demonstrates the importance of death education: teachers and students writing and talking about a subject that, until now, has often been deemed too personal for the classroom.

Contents:

Barbara's cancer diary

Barbara's death

My eulogy for Barbara

An optional writing assignment

The other eulogies

Students reading about Barbara's life

Life after Barbara.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480502

079148050X

9781429465748

1429465743

OCLC:

123417461