Death Education
Thesis: death education should be implemented in the health curriculum. Rationale: Let me ask this first... Does doing well in school translate into being a successful human being? Yes... but the correlation is not as strong as we would hope. We have people like myself who do well in school but then felt incredibly under-prepared for life. In the research world we call that a Type I error. A false positive. The test (my schooling and more particularly my grades) says that I will be successful but then the outcome is less than expected (I'm doing ok now but for a while it wasn't going so hot). Then there is the Type II error, or false negative. People who struggle to get good grades in school but then do remarkably well in career, family, health, and pretty much every other metric we might use to evaluate the overall awesomeness of one's life. I think our system makes more Type II errors than Type I personally. You might say, "yeah but nobody said school was ...