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

Yuqi Liu

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/8/20230055

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Liu,Y. (2023). The Lack of Contemporary Death Education in China and Its Impact on Public Awareness. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,8,104-108.

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

Yuqi Liu *^,1,

¹ University of the Arts London

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/8/20230055

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.

Keywords

death education, life value, public cognition, education deviations

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Liu,Y. (2023). The Lack of Contemporary Death Education in China and Its Impact on Public Awareness. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,8,104-108.

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Volume title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Psychology and Humanity Studies

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ISBN：978-1-915371-97-3(Print) / 978-1-915371-98-0(Online)

Conference date: 24 April 2023

Editor：Muhammad Idrees, Faisalabad Matilde Lafuente-Lechuga

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Volume number: Vol.8

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