<p>Ever had a prof. die while teaching the class? and what happened then?</p>
<p>i did. it's pretty sad. but what can u do. it was God's will. he chooses people to bless and people to curse.</p>
<p>Had a professor die but I had finished his course the year before; the 2 other profs teaching it with him carried on. I remeber being devastated, he was a fairly young man.</p>
<p>One of the profs at my school threw himself off a school building during the semester. Talk of the town.</p>
<p>No, but I have thought of killing myself in some classes : )</p>
<p>When I was teaching college, a photography professor in my department dropped dead of a heart attack in the photo lab in front of his students. Understandably, the students were traumatized. The campus counseling center provided support to them. The course, though, continued for the rest of the semester with another professor taking it over. I am sure that if any students were so traumatized that they couldn't finish the course that semester, arrangements were made for them to take incompletes.</p>
<p>wow, that must have been really distressing and embarracing. it's embarracing enough to talk in front of the multitudes, but to die in front of them...</p>
<p>when i die, i must die heroically. i must die fighting drammatically against my foes and planting the banner of the cross on the blood-soaked soil before crying out my last breath of GREATNESS</p>
<p>I've never heard of this, with any of my current or previous teachers.</p>
<p>I have never personally known anyone who has died (well, after age 4, one of my grandparents died long ago)</p>
<p>I'm so naive...</p>
<p>(and this is most certainly going to end soon).</p>
<p><em>cries</em></p>
<p>No one I had, but 3 of the professors here died this semester (I go to Virginia Tech). No one had o take any finals or anything</p>
<p>our ap euro teacher died (in hs) last year... it was huge because he was so popular. and since it was an ap course, it was kinda of difficult but they transitioned us over to the other ap euro teacher who was really stressed out with like 5-6 classes at the time...</p>
<p>I was in high school at that time. Ours was the last class my professor took. We all went home that day, I got the news a few hours later that he passed away (drowned). I think I was probably the last student in the school he talked to (We had discussed about the next day's class right up to his car).</p>
<p>Death isn't a curse. The exact opposite, in fact.</p>
<p>Can you imagine the kids at Virginia Tech? Watching their professor get killed and knowing that it could have been them?</p>
<p>Professor #1: stroke, some weeks after wrapping up our class. Died soon after getting paralyzed. Still can't believe it -- she was probably the most animated teacher I've ever had in that school.</p>
<p>Professor #2: she didn't die, but her husband (a chemist) did... in a basement explosion involving one of his experiments. Tragi-comic. She quit shortly thereafter. I can't even begin to understand what it must've felt like for her.</p>
<p>My daughter's third grade teacher died of leukemia about 1/2 way through the school year. She continued to teach almost to the end and shared her experience, in an age-appropriate fashion, with the class (e.g., she patiently answered questions from her students about why she lost her hair during chemotherapy, etc.). The school administration and other teachers handled the situation in a very professional, caring, thoughtful way, helped with the teacher's workload, substituted when necessary, etc. My daughter certainly was not traumatized by what happened. Quite to the contrary, she and most of her classmates gained a greater understanding of the process of dying and to this day (my daughter is now 17) she still speaks of this teacher as a role model and an incredibly courageous person.</p>