Realizing that all students have to deal with death at some time, yet receive no formal education in the subject, Alex Kramer, a high school teacher at Moon High School, Corapolis, Pennsylvania, decided to create a program which would give students an opportunity to study death and the process of dying as integral parts of life. Kramer's goals, designed for his behavioral science class of juniors and seniors, are to promote realistic attitudes about death and to dispel myths and fears associated with it. To achieve these objectives, death is studied from several perspectives. Students are visited by doctors, nurses, ambulance attendants, and a mortician, all of whom deal with different aspects of death. They read letters from wartime soldiers who faced the probability of their own death daily. Students tour cemeteries, hold class discussions on topics such as euthanasia and cryonics, and answer questionnaires on their own religion's response to death. To evaluate his class, Kramer requires his students to answer a questionnaire. It reveals that by treating death as a fact of life students fear death less and appreciate life more. (Author/CF)