University Daily Kansan, October 31, 1980 Page 9
Forum to focus on death counseling
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—At lunchtime on a snowy November day four years ago, 30 school children in Detroit were preparing to open their lunch bags when an angry-looking stranger entered their classroom. He talked to the teacher and then suddenly shot her several times, killing her.
Bruce Danto, a psychiatrist and former police officer in Detroit who helped those children deal with the horror of that experience, is one of the featured speakers at the Third Annual College Conference on counseling tomorrow and Sunday at the Hilton Plaza Inn, Kansas City, Mo.
The conference is sponsored by the Forum for Death Education and Counseling of Arlington, Va., the KU School of Nursing and the KU division of health care outreach and continuing education.
"For many years, people thought that everyone could handle grief without any assistance," said Doris Getgeity, dean of the School of Nursing. "Now we realize, though, that severe mental problems can develop in some cases if a person is not taught to cope with a death."
Besides providing information for those who must deal with death and
grief, the conference will focus on those who conduct death education and death-related counseling.
"Through the conference we will try to impress the importance of training health personnel to deal with grief. Without medical personnel who know how to deal with such situations, serious psychological problems could develop even among hospital staff members," Gettgey said.
The School of Nursing at the KU College of Health Sciences offers a class, "Inquiry into Death and Grief," to teach health professionals how to deal with dying patients and their relatives and friends.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?"
Psalms 2:1 and Acta 4:25
Sometimes ago in this column we gave the historical facts of three women whose "Statistica was impregnable" and whose "fear of death" led to their downfall.
We are quoting in a full testimony received on a post card: "Thank you for the article on chastity. It was written for me. After serving the Lord all my life I was about to depart from the way of Life and give myself to a man who is sweet and nice to me. For 25 years my husband has always helped me. I might help me stand it. Thank goodness you stopped me!"
It was not me, that stopped you, it was the Word of God, though I thank God for using this column as sort of a "messenger boy." It was The Word of God that told us about the tragedy of the lives of two ladies and a man that lived seventen hundred and sixteen years ago, and the act of a young woman who lived in our land about forty years ago—"THEIR CHASITY WAS IMPREGNABLE." As said of one of them, Agatha, well knew that virtue alone could procure happiness.
He was "sweet and nice to me" said the lady of the wretch who tried to seduce and debase her! "For 25 years he
Thinking about these, and other such devils, there came to mind what a mighty good man, a school teacher, said to a dirty boy, to try and make him ashamed of himself: "Boy, you have fallen so low you would need a ladder to climb up high enough to look a rattlesnake in the face!"
It was the false prophet Balaam, the man who loved the wages of unrighteousness and was rebuked for his madness by a dumb ass speaking with man's voice. It was this man who said after being given a vision of the blessing of God that he left the GIFT OF THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND LET MY LAST END BE LIKE HIS!" Numbers 23:10. However, in spite of his wonderful vision and his expressed desire to "die the death of the righteous," his greed and disregard for home and morality and God's Command for home and marriage, caused him to command and die with the wicked!
It was Jesus Christ who said, recorded at least three times in the Gospel: "He that endureth to the end shall be saved." He also said: "When ye pray, say, ... DELIVER US FROM EVIL!"
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