Deborah Golden Alecson is a retired professor in the field of thanatology. She is the author of Lost Lullaby (University of California Press, 1995), We Are So Lightly Here: A Story About Conscious Dying (IntoPrint Press, 2014), Complicated Grief: A Collection of Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and Alternative Treatments for Children Within the Autistic Spectrum (Keats Publishing, 1999). She wrote a monthly column for The Berkshire Eagle entitled “Musings on Mortality.”
