• 아동학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.241-256
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• 2009

This survey of children's perceptions and experiences of death was conducted with 118 6th-grade elementary school children in Seoul. Data consisted of responses to questionnaires in three categories : (1) perceptions of death, (2) views of afterlife, and (3) death-related experiences (life, education, and media). Results showed that children had negative emotions (61.8%) such as fear and anxiety about death. Children's attitudes about suicide were sympathetic (34.5%) as well as critical (53.7%). There was no relation between religion and view of afterlife. Finally, children experienced death more through mass media (TV, internet, etc.) than through life experience or death education. This study suggests the necessity for death education and warns of negative effects of media and games.

• 의학교육논단
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.153-162
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• 2020

The aim of modern medicine is to prolong life by fighting death. Doctors have traditionally believed that this was an ethical good deed. The negative connotation surrounding death has led to the avoidance of terminally ill patients. But in a modern society where death is medicalized, doctors have to see dying patients every day and are in a state of guilt from implementing meaningless life-sustaining treatments. Therefore, medical schools should allow medical students to embrace a new perspective through death education. Yonsei University Medical College has implemented death education since 2017 as an optional class for first and second year medical students. Students watch videos related to death once a week for 6 weeks and submit their reflections by e-mail. The professor reads the students' reflections and gives them weekly feedback. Through this coursework, students realize that death is not a medical event, but rather a part of life and completion. The ultimate purpose of death education is to transform blind life-absolutist identity into narrative identity.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.109-125
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• 2007

How an elderly people meets death is the matter of how he has lived his life. It is very important for an elderly people at the last step of his life to re-light up life and to meet death with dignity. The purpose of this study is to investigate where fear or anxiety of death come from among the four dimensins of death anxiety and to compare the differenced between the elderly group and non-elderly group, For this research, the 473 of the subjects from 20 to 80 years old attending social welfare center and community areas in Seoul have been questionned. The summary for the study mentioned the following: First, the overall scores of death anxiety, in the non-aged group, gender and religiosity are important factors affecting the decrease of death anxiety, On the other hand, in the aged group, self-respect, death readiness and number of friends are significant factors. Secondly, for death anxiety of self, age and spouse are significant relationships among non-aged group and gender, death readiness and number of friends for aged-group. In the dying of self, the following each three significant variables: gender, self-respect and spouse among non-aged group and gender, self-respect and number of friends among aged group. In death anxiety of others, age, view on next world and spouse are best predictor for non-aged group. Finally, family-relationship, self-respect and spouse are significant factors for aged group. In dying of others, only one factors are influenced for non-aged group, on the other hand, gender, self-respect and death readiness are important factors for aged group. There remains the need for more detailed examination into the nature of this relationship and the extent to which core components strongly affecting the above subscales.

• 철학연구
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• 제139권
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• pp.239-263
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• 2016

오늘날 많은 현대인들이 힘들게 살아가는 것은 본질적인 문제를 외면하고 물질주의에 너무 깊이 빠져 있기 때문이다. 부귀영화만 쫓을 것이 아니라 삶의 본질을 밝혀낼 수 있는 죽음을 공부함으로써 삶의 진정한 의미를 찾아내야 한다. 장자는 죽음을 초탈한 사람이다. 장자의 죽음관은 아름답다. 이 논문은 "장자"의 죽음관을 통해서 오늘날 현대인들이 어떻게 살아가는지 반추해보고, 그것을 바탕으로 올바른 생사관을 정립하고자 하는 목적으로 쓰여졌다. 그리고 그의 죽음관이 오늘날 우리들에게 무엇을 시사(示唆)하고 있는지 함께 살펴보려고 한다. 죽음만큼 좋은 공부는 없다. 살아가는 데 있어서 죽음 이상의 큰 스승은 없다. 죽음을 생각하면 어떻게 살아야 할지 해답을 찾을 수 있다. 그래서 죽음 공부는 삶의 공부이다. 우리는 죽음을 통해서 삶의 의미와 가치를 발견할 수 있다. 보통 죽음에 대한 문제는 기성종교를 통해서만 해답을 얻을 수 있다고 생각을 하기 쉽다. 하지만 장자의 죽음관을 보면 종교에 의존하지 않고도 얼마든지 죽음의 문제를 해결할 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있다. 장자는 죽음을 긍정적으로 생각하게 만들고 죽음에 대한 두려움도 경감시켜 주는 역할을 하였다. 그는 자연의 변화에 순응하면서 사는 것이 가장 잘 사는 길이요, 그렇게 살면 죽음도 편안하게 맞이할 수 있다는 것을 우리에게 가르쳐 주었다.

• 철학연구
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• 제130권
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• pp.161-186
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• 2014

웰빙'(well being)과 함께 최근 '웰다잉'(well dying)에 대한 사회적 관심이 '안락사'(安樂死) 문제를 계기로 촉발되어 인간 죽음의 존엄성에 대한 중요한 담론으로 대두되고 있다. '웰다잉'(well dying)은 그 어의대로 '좋은 죽음'을 의미하며, 이런 의미적 맥락의 연장선상에서 통상적으로 '준비된 죽음', '품위 있는 죽음', '아름다운 죽음'을 지칭한다. 본고에서 논자는 '죽음'을 교학의 출발점으로, 그리고 '죽음의 극복'을 교학의 종착점으로 삼고 있는 불교의 죽음관이 웰다잉에 대한 담론에 어떠한 기여를 할 수 있는지 면밀히 고찰하였다. 불교의 죽음에 대한 태도와 해석, 그리고 그 극복의 과정은 웰다잉에 대한 보다 풍부한 담론을 형성하는 단초가 되며, 특히 죽음의 극복을 육체적 생리적 영생으로서가 아닌 정신적 심리적 현상으로 해석하고 이러한 정신적 심리적 변화를 통한 사물의 진실상(眞實相)에 대한 깨달음[정각(正覺)]을 통해서 죽음을 극복하는 불교의 견해는 죽음불안의 극복 및 죽음교육에 많은 기여를 할 수 있다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.271-279
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• 2018

본 연구는 임상실습을 경험한 간호 대학생의 죽음의식과 좋은 죽음 인식을 파악하고 관계를 확인하고자 시도되었다. 자료 수집은 2018년 6월 1일부터 6월 15일까지 S시에 소재한 C대학의 3학년 111명, 4학년 94명인 총 205명을 대상으로 하였다. 대상자의 죽음의식과 좋은 죽음 인식정도 모두 보통수준이었고, 일반적 특성에 따른 죽음의식은 죽음에 대해 생각해본 경험에서(t=.559, p=.002), 좋은 죽음 인식은 죽음교육(t=.777, p=.018)과 죽음에 대한 이해정도에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(F=2.964, p=.033). 학년과 좋은 죽음 인식 간에는 정적 상관관계가 있었으나(r=.161, p=.021), 죽음의식과 좋은 죽음인식 간에는 상관관계가 없었다(r=-.71, p=.311). 본 연구의 결과로 임상실습을 경험한 간호 대학생들의 죽음의식과 좋은 죽음인식 정도와 죽음생각과 죽음교육의 중요성을 알 수 있었으며, 죽음의식과 좋은 죽음 인식 향상을 위한 간호교육과 관계 확인을 위한 반복연구가 필요하다.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.423-437
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of death education, focusing on death orientation and suicidal ideation, among college students majoring in social welfare. Participation in this study was voluntary. Participants were divided into two groups; an experimental group and a control group, totaling fourteen participants in each group. In exploring the effects of death education, the experimental group was subjected to a total of seven independent sessions dealing with death education over a period of four weeks. As a result of the death education, scores of death orientation and suicidal ideation in the experimental group were significantly lower in the control group. College students majoring in social welfare in the experimental group demonstrated greater comfort with the concept of death, as well as death being the prolongation of one life and new hope for an ensuing life. The experimental group demonstrated a greater appreciation for life, more confidence in setting future goals for their lives, and an awareness of, and ability to deal positively with suicidal tendencies in themselves and others. This research demonstrated a strong practical benefit associated with death education and suicidal ideation awareness.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.211-224
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• 2020

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate death attitude, death anxiety, and knowledge toward advance directives of nursing students. Method: Participants were 157 nursing undergraduates in Korea. The students responded to a self-reporting questionnaire that included demographics, Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R), Revised Death Anxiety Scale (RDAS), and knowledge toward advance directives. The data collection period was December, 9-13, 2019. Data were analyzed by descriptive test, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficient with SPSS/WIN 23.0. Results: The mean scores for death attitude, death anxiety, and knowledge toward advance directives were 2.70±0.58, 2.45±0.49, and 7.94±2.04, respectively. Knowledge toward advance directives was significantly different according to age, grade, and experience of end-of-life care education. Death attitude was significantly associated with death anxiety (r=. 27, p<.001). Conclusion: Knowledge toward advance directive was relatively low compared to the findings of previous studies. Therefore, nursing colleges need to include legal and institutional aspects when writing written letters on advance directive, death attitude, and ethical approaches to death anxiety.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.155-159
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• 1977

A study on the status of death in rural area was conducted during the period from July '75 to August '75. 1,225 families and 8,067 population (4,124 male, 3,943 female) had been lived and 149 events of death since 5 years before study were occurred in survey area, Nammyon, Hwasoongun, Chonnam. The summarized results were as follows: 1. Quinquennial death rate was 3.7 (5.2 for male, 2.1 for female). 2. In respect of age group, the highest group was over 70 years old group (age at death, 30.8% of total death). High age groups (over 50 years old) occupied 71.1% of total death and death rate in these groups were higher in male than female. Child death (0-4 years old) occupied 7.4% of total death and infant death rate was higher in female than male. 3. Duration of sickness before die was highest in 1 to 12 months (39.6%) 4. The most frequent cause of death was disease of digestive system (12.1%). Other important causes were disease of circulatory system (10.7%), disease of respiratory system (9.4%) and infectious and parasitic disease (4.7%). Disease of digestive system was the most frequent cause of death in male (14.0%) and disease of respiratory system was the most frequent cause in female (9.5%).

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.81-92
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• 1999

This study attempt to analyze the influence of the preliminary education on the Elderly's attitude for death and to present basic data for the death-preliminary education. The data were collected by administerial the Questionnaire interview with 169 the elderly who was 200 the elderly over 60 year old in silver colleges. The Questions was consists the awareness recognition of death, character, attitudes toward for death. The statistical methods used for the analysis were t-test, factor analysis. The results were the follows. There was no statistically significant relations between the fear of death and the general characteristics the elderly, but the old women felt more anxiety than old men. Especially, more aged, unhealthy the elderly felt it more and the lower educated or the single felt it more severely. The change in the attitude for death: They attitude for death was considerably changed after the preliminary education. Fears and anxiety about death were more reduced and the inevitability of death was accepted positively. This result showed the influence of the preliminary death education had positive affliction of the elderly's attitude for death. Accordingly, with the practice of the preliminary education we can release the elderly from the fear for death and guide them to live meaningly.