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OUR DYING WISHES

Three journalism students have spent the last eight months uncovering how the perceptions that surround death and dying in Canada are evolving. Despite being a natural process, death is often viewed as a taboo topic. Our research has uncovered that that death needs to be a part our daily conversations. Your life might depend on it.

Taylor Berzins

As a lifelong fan of the macabre/future Morticia Addams, Taylor decided that she wanted to have a little bit of fun for her last journalism project by spending the year exploring death culture. Taylor is a pizza connoisseur, a sucker for haunting post-punk music, Manager of Operations at Student Publications, interim Editor-in-Chief of The Sputnik, and co-founder of Advocates for a Student Culture of Consent. CLICK THROUGH TO READ HER BLOG.

Jaclyn Brown

Passionate broadcast television student in fourth-year journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University. A wide-eyed dreamer and transfer student from Calgary,  she’s fallen in love with Brantford’s character and history. After obtaining her post-grad in broadcast videography from Conestoga College last year, Jaclyn is readier than ever to pursuit a television reporting career Outside of class you can find her at Wilkes Gym teaching  Zumba, running by the river, and hitting up a hot class at Moksha. Jaclyn’s endeavors will be moving her back to Cowtown in April 2016 to start as the summer student for CTV Calgary. CLICK THROUGH TO READ HER BLOG.

Mia Vamos-Yuhasz

Mia really likes the way that Taylor thinks, usually, but when Taylor presented her with the idea of studying dying and death in Canada for a year, she was a little put off. How morbid can you get, right? But then she had lunch with a cousin who's husband had recently died, and they got to talking about the impact of death on the living, and Mia realized that this would probably be the most important research project (and journey) of her young life. She wasn't wrong. Mia is a fourth year journalism student, Editor-in-Chief of her school yearbook, vegetable enthusiast, and a million other things, she just can't list them all here. CLICK THROUGH TO READ HER BLOG.

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