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Inspired from a friend’s Facebook post abt dealing w/ increased anxiety abt & first-person experiences w/ death during this time of #COVID19, I’ll offer some observations & lessons from when I taught The Rhetoric of Death and Dying at #UTAustin. 1/
Inspired from a friend’s Facebook post abt dealing w/ increased anxiety abt & first-person experiences w/ death during this time of #COVID19, I’ll offer some observations & lessons from when I taught The Rhetoric of Death and Dying at #UTAustin. 1/
Context: It was a rhet-comp class housed in the Digital Writing & Rhetoric Lab between 2013-14. We focused a lot on digital composition & analyses of visual/Internet media. I *loved* designing & teaching this course. 2/
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Some big takeaways:
1. We’re good, as a society, at treating death/dying with humor.
2. We’re not so good about facing it directly.
3. But we can get better at facing it! 3/
1. We’re good, as a society, at treating death/dying with humor.
2. We’re not so good about facing it directly.
3. But we can get better at facing it! 3/
