To the end, Marathon was at center of student's life
I am in big trouble on the thread for noting that her dissertation was stupid, and her death proved it.
28-Year-Old Woman Dies Two Days After Collapsing While Running in the Boston Marathon
Perhaps by discrediting and stopping her "work" another already grief-stricken family will be spared the agony of being "counselled" to run a marathon. Her school in Boston has just been exposed as a fraud; their doctorates worthless to point of being dangerous. Her family should be refunded every dollar they spent on her "education," and every one of their graduates practicing in the mental health field (how many work for the government?) should be under review.
''At first, running a marathon sounds too demanding, if not absolutely impossible to accomplish,'' Lucero wrote in the introduction to her 100-page dissertation. ''But I believe this is not only a realistic goal to accomplish but also an excellent coping mechanism that helps runners and many cancer patients and their families.''
THIS is how a person earns a DOCTORATE at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology??