Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • By the Same Author
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "Life Lessons"
  • Part 1: Diaries
  • Chapter 1-Week One "Nervous Undergraduates Avoiding Eye Contact"
  • Chapter 2-Week Two "Hearing It Made His Death More Real"
  • Chapter 3-Week Three "She Helped Me Say What I Could Not Say Myself"
  • Chapter 4-Week Four "There's Too Much Covering Up of Grief in America"
  • Chapter 5-Week Five "We're Going to Die"
  • Chapter 6-Week Six "Thinking Like a Writer"
  • Chapter 7-Week Seven "I'm Sorry, I Understand"
  • Chapter 8-Week Eight "Sometimes I Feel Like an Outsider in This Class"
  • Chapter 9-Week Nine "I Felt As If I Were Reliving that Day"
  • Chapter 10-Week Ten "There Is No Preparation for a Sight of Death"
  • Chapter 11-Week Eleven "I Love You Too Much"
  • Chapter 12-Week Twelve "We're Taking Risks in a Safe Place"
  • Chapter 13-Week Thirteen "Write As If You Were Dying"
  • Chapter 14-Week Fourteen "I Used to Cry in the Middle of the Night and Contemplate Suicide"
  • Chapter 15-Week Fifteen "I Am Not Alone in This Battle"
  • Part 2: Breakthroughs
  • Chapter 16-Chipo "I Have to Turn My Shattered Reality into a Livable Dream"
  • Chapter 17-Lia "Instead of Minimizing My Struggles, I Wrote about Them"
  • Chapter 18-Shannon "It's Hard for Me to Express Emotion"
  • Chapter 19-Faith "If I Could Not Write, I Would Not Survive"
  • Chapter 20-Anonymous "I Will Always Remember My Unborn Baby"
  • Conclusion: Reading Dying to Teach
  • Appendix: Syllabus for English 450: Writing about Love and Loss
  • References
  • Student Writers
  • Index.