on death and dying

why is America a "death-denying" culture?

On Wednesday this week, I completed my semester of Grief and Bereavement in my master’s in social work program. The professor expressed great gratitude for our class and how we hungered after her experiences dealing with grief and loss. She shared that she had to fight to offer Grief and Bereavement as an elective.

Our professor has over twenty years of experience working with death and dying. The way she talked about it in such a natural way was reassuring to me— we learned about how other cultures view death and dying, and how Americans try to push away and ignore the finality of death and life. We are all going to die.

Why is our country like this?

Why do we shy away from a natural life process?

Of course, death and dying are not fun topics to discuss— but they are a part of life.