We all know that the one thing that is certain about life is that no one is going to get out of it alive. But few of us take the time to think about our own death, partly because it is not a pleasant prospect, and partly because we have better things to do while living.

Nonetheless, the process of death and dying is an important one that each and every one of us should familiarize ourselves with, because we too, will get there someday, hopefully later rather than sooner.

In this, the last assignment, do a little research (you may use the list below, or find your own materials to read and study) and write a paragraph on how you would prepare for your own death. Would you give the digital rights to all your texts, emails and uploads to Facebook or Twitter to someone or have them disappear into cyberspace obscurity? What would you want other people to remember about you? Would you want a burial and a headstone, or cremation and an urn? How would you communicate this with the people in your life who are important? How would you prepare yourself physically and emotionally? In her book, On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross explored the experience of dying through interviews with terminally ill patients and described Five Stages of Dying: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance (DABDA). Do you agree with these concepts? How would you characterize your future experience with dying?