Mortality is experienced as individuals, as family members, as a community, and as a world. We will cover the following topics with the guidance of some experts in their field: Terror Management Theory with Dr. Sheldon Solomon of Skidmore College; End-of-Life Decision-Making including a "chosen death" with Randee Laikind, Board Member of Final Exit Network; Genocide with Halina Rosenkranz, Case Manager/Group Leader-Holocaust Survivors Program, Westchester Jewish Community Services, and Global Warming and Grief: Death Anxiety and Death Denial with Deborah Alecson.

Deborah Golden Alecson is a retired adjunct professor in the field of thanatology. She designed and taught a course in medical humanities for Excelsior College and taught " Thanatology 101" during the Winter Studies semester at Williams College. Alecson wrote a monthly column for The Berkshire Eagle called "Musings on Mortality," and she has written and published personal books about dying in America including Lost Lullaby (University of California Press, 1995).

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