Assignments for public school students receiving "Death Education" have included writing their own epitaphs, writing a suicide note, discussing family deaths, making a small model of their own coffin, imagining that they have been buried alive as part of a real-life kidnapping case, discussing lifeboat dilemmas while deciding which of their peers must be left to drown, and discussing overcrowded fallout shelter scenarios from which a member of the student's family must be expelled. The ABC news program "20/20" showed children being taken on a field trip to a morgue, and encouraged to touch the corpses as a way to overcome their inhibitions.

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