In this article, the author, a superintendent of Clark-Pleasant School Corporation in Whiteland, Indiana, relates how she and the school community responded to a car accident that killed two students. The author stresses the need to develop a comprehensive crisis plan. It is also important to be sensitive to the needs of family members who are…

Data from the National Center for Sports Injury show that changes in rules and equipment have made interscholastic sports safer in recent decades, but the record for 1982-1997 shows that there is still room for improvement. The paper presents sport-specific considerations and examines several general safety recommendations that should be followed.…

Health educators should consider autoerotic death as a topic for possible inclusion in health and death education classes. This article provides background information which includes extent of the problem, signs and symptoms of participation, health education curriculum, prevention, and implications for death education. (IAH)

Describes how the staffs of the yearbook, newspaper, online Web page, and literary magazine (at the Pottsville Area High School in Pennsylvania) worked together on a special insert to cover the deaths of three students in an auto accident. Appends an exercise on deciding coverage of automobile accidents. (RS)

In the United States, approximately three-fourths of all deaths among persons aged 10-24 years result from only four causes: motor-vehicle crashes, other unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide. Results from this 1999 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey demonstrate that numerous high school students engage in behaviors that increase the…