6. Understand and help patients apply strategies for coping with death

Unit 7>Section 2>Exercise 4>Eric Hampton’s “By the light”

Clinical correlate 5 ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)

View the following videos and answer the study questions.
Eric Hampton

Dance Interview

Study questions

1. What is the attitude towards death expressed in this dance sequence?
2. How is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis present in the work? How does the biographical information affect your interpretation of and emotional reaction to the artist’s work?
3. How might Eric Hampton’s way of coping with death be helpful to you in supporting seriously ill patients? What can you learn from such a video?