Deborah Golden AlecsonDeborah Golden Alecson is a thanatologist and adjunct professor. She designed and teaches a course in medical humanities for the School of Liberal Arts at Excelsior College. She has taught Ethics of Health Care, Death, Dying and Bereavement, Spirituaity in Life Transitions, and The Sociology of Health and Illness for the Schools of Health Science and Nursing at Excelsior College. She has created a course in thanatology that she teaches for Williams College during their Winter Study semester. She writes a monthly newspaper column called Musings on Mortality. She lectures on and writes about dying well in a death-phobic culture as well as other topics. Her website is: http: //www.deborahgoldenalecson.com/ Read More Read Less