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Kentucky College brings death, dying discussion into classroom.
HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) -- For most people, it's difficult to talk about death. It's not easy to think about planning a funeral, to consider end of life issues or contemplate what others are really feeling when they're going through the stages of grief.
But a class at Henderson Community College this semester has considered all those things, and students taking the class have been surprised by how doing so has changed their feelings and attitudes about a tough subject and helped them look to the future with different ideas.
"It's a topic that's taboo," said Rebecca Emerson, the instructor for "Psychosocial Aspects of Death and Dying," a class that hadn't been …
