Tuesdays With Morrie Lesson Plan

How Other Cultures View Death - Infographics

Kind of Activity:

Research

Objective:

Students will gain a deeper understanding of how different cultures views on death.

Structure:

Present students the following passage from the text to revisit:

As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. There is a tribe in the North American Arctic, for example, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that holds it—so that a deer has a tiny deer inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny form lives on. It can slide into...