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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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Barbara’s Cancer Diary

2. Barbara’s Death

3. My Eulogy for Barbara

4. An Optional Writing Assignment

5. The Other Eulogies

6. Students Reading about Barbara’s Life

7. Life after Barbara

Appendix
Works Cited
Index

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Santé et bien-être

Santé mentale & traumatisme

Vie de famille

Soutien psychologique et conseils familiaux

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791480502
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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to DyingTeach ~ A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning ~

Jeffrey Berman

DYING TO TEACH

Other Books by the Author Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis Narcissism and the Novel Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom Surviving Literary Suicide Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom Empathic Teaching: Education for Life

DYING TO TEACH A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning

Jeffrey Berman

State University of New York Press

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Berman, Jeffrey, 1945– Dying to teach : a memoir of love, loss, and learning / Jeffrey Berman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN–13: 978–0–7914–7009–1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN–13: 978–0–7914–7010–7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Pancreas—Cancer—Patients—Biography. 2. Teacherstudent relationships. 3. Death. 4. Caregivers. 5. Eulogies. 6. Hospice care. I. Title.

RC280.P25B47 2007 362.196′994370092—dc22 [B]

2006012418

For Clark Dougan, Priscilla Claiborne, James Peltz, and Jane Bunker, My Editors and Friends

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On the Anniversary of Her Death

(in memory of Barbara Berman)

You expected she would have been gone by March, but instead, dying was tenacious, and hung on, making her belly distend, as if it was suddenly ripe, again with daughters.

Today, two years later, a cruel April wind roars and carries off the seared blossoms that now ﬂood my yard, like heaves of snow, glinting with atomistic hooves of gold—

The earth was not ready for them, either. It would rather toss, and give away, but on this day, let’s think of her not in pain, or horror, but as this ﬂight of ivory petals, ferrying fro heartbeats swift as beaming wings.

Yes, let’s think she has ﬂown away somewhere, like them, indelibly, where the ﬂesh of trees no longer bleeds and nothing left is visible, to disappear. —Judith Harris

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Contents

Acknowledgments /xi

Introduction/1

1 Barbara’s Cancer Diary/11

2 Barbara’s Death/63

3 My Eulogy for Barbara/99

4 An Optional Writing Assignment/117

5 The Other Eulogies/165

6 Students Reading about Barbara’s Life/185

7 Life after Barbara/209

Appendix /237