The Lack of Contemporary Death Education in China and Its Impact on Public Awareness

Abstract

China lacks three categories of education: sex education, education of love, and death education, which correspond to the integrity of the body, the abundance of the soul, and the value of life, but they have become forbidden, obscure, and taboo. In recent years, self-mutilation, suicide, and violence are becoming infantilization, which has a growing negative impact on teenagers. Through literature review, the main arguments of this paper are 1) the social influences caused by the lack of death education 2) the process of developing public awareness of death from 1928 until the present, and 3) the discussion on the first-hand data from the primary questionnaire. Therefore, this paper investigates in-depth domestic death education in China, aiming to find the correlation between whether people have received death education before and their awareness of death.