Interesting. I actually took a class called Death and Dying in my senior year of high school. I took it because at the time I wanted to go into forensic psychology, and it seemed like a decent elective to fill my schedule with, along with my forensics, and medical lab classes.

I don't remember a ton about that class. I remember that we watched a lot of movies that dealt with death, like My Girl, A Walk to Remember, Tuesdays With Morrie, etc. We also went on a field trip to a historic cemetery in my home city. There was also a research project where we each had to do a presentation on a past or present culture's funeral rites.

It was a mildly interesting class, but I was a high school student. I get the feeling that the children that Thomas Sowell was talking about were much younger.