{"id":51727,"date":"2018-04-13T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=51727"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:18:29","slug":"before-i-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/13\/before-i-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I Die\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 10 days, a large interactive exhibit has rolled around campus, making stops at the Quad, White Hall Atrium, Hamilton Plaza, Student Union and &#8220;Turning Points.&#8221; The large four-sided chalkboard on wheels encouraged students to answer the question: What do you want to do before you die?<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the wall came from a TED Talk for students in Communicating through Chronic Illness and End of Life, a special topics in communication course at Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Thompson, associate professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/communication\">communication<\/a>, said the project is a great way to discuss end-of-life care and communication with her students in the course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been rocked to my core with what they\u2019ve been willing to share,\u201d said Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote \u2018to find love,&#8217;\u201d said Hunter Whitt, a junior communication studies major. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hate going around in this world and I think that love really brings us together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson says the response has been overwhelming and plans to continue teaching this course and expanding the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interactive exhibit encouraged students to answer the question: What do you want to do before you die? <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/13\/before-i-die\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":51734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,747,715,4855,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51733,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51727\/revisions\/51733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}