Response of "The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome"

Response: I thought that The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome by Mike Adams was a well written essay that cleverly used humor and satire to make this come alive.  I thought it was very clever the way that he used graphs to prove his points, selling the idea that what he was saying was actually very true, and that we need to do something about it before the danger becomes much bigger than what it already has.  At every turn, he stressed the danger of this problem, that relatives were really dying because of their child's exams.  The fact that he made it sound so serious made it all that much more funny to me reading it.  For example, when he gives the statistics that the FDR (family death rate) jumps from .054 with no exam to .574 with a midterm and to 1.042 for a final exam, he makes it sound like this is a real thing (176).  I think that this was a great essay that sounded very believable, and at the same time very ridiculous, so as to kind of keep the reader guessing and to give him a good laugh when he is finished reading it.