Chinese civilization pays attention to everything from the beginning to the end. A good end of life has its necessary conditions: knowing your own death time in advance and facing it correctly; The body has no pain; Turn around calmly in my heart.
It can be seen that facing life and death is a necessary condition for a good death, and a perfect life and death education can support a good death at the end of life. Due to the influence of traditional ideas, death education is a taboo topic in our life, and it is also missing in the education system.
This has led to many people's confusion and regret at the end of their lives. Such a contradiction between cultural reality and the need to die well needs to be solved by popularizing popular science.
Therefore, the general course of death education is offered in colleges and universities to increase the scientific understanding of death in society in multiple dimensions.
Which aspect of public death education needs science most?
We need to start with traditional culture and understand the cultural connotation of death.
The literal meanings of "death" and "death" are different. "Death" means silence, stillness and no longer vitality, and "death" means being forgotten.
Works that will not be forgotten in one's lifetime will greatly belittle the obsession with death, which is the significance that is often engraved on inscriptions after death.
Secondly, death is bound to be a multi-dimensional cultural event, and different perspectives on death can often guide us to treat it rationally from different angles: the understanding of biology is the cessation of breathing and heartbeat, such as literal understanding, "death, leave" and leave forever; Psychological death refers to the understanding of death events and emotional response to death events; On the philosophical level, death is "two sides of an organic whole, without life or death, without death or life"; From the sociological point of view, death is the end of identity and relationship.
In addition, death itself has its own characteristics: universality, cause, irreversibility and inorganic energy.
Popularize knowledge about the world of death and eliminate the dark fear of death. In the face of death, human beings will instinctively have fear. The root of fear comes from ignorance of the world of death, so they are eager to know what kind of process death is. In fact, after millions of years of evolution, human beings have a fixed process: generally, patients near the end of their lives lose their sense of taste and smell first, that is, they don't like what they like to eat, and there is no need to eat it.
Attach importance to science and technology humanities education, make life complete and have a good ending. Knowing the universality of individual death, we will not be eager for modern medical technology and blame the death on the failure of medical technology. At the end of the disease, no technology can rejuvenate children and no medicine can restore them to health. In this process, medical technology is bound to appear pale and powerless. It is important that we show humanistic care in time, so that individuals can fade away from the aura of life but at the same time reproduce the brilliance of human nature.
Science is leading, and reason is facing life and death. From the perspective of our society, at present, periodicals and various media are often filled with all kinds of death pictures. The death images we see are often violent storms, thunder and lightning, bleak autumn winds, or reappearing death scenes in the form of punishment. There is even a saying that the death carried by our culture is reflected in the form of fear and punishment, but the real death should not be like this. There are too many twists and turns in life that are complete.
Death education is life education, which is to make such positive guidance. Only in this way can people have the courage to face life and death and properly handle things before and after death.
I think the education about death is not to let people die, but to be more rational and less afraid when death comes. Can calmly face and rationally handle all kinds of unfinished wishes; We can love, thank, say goodbye and apologize to our own world, and finally seek the eternal meaning and value of life. Through continuous transcendence and integration, we can achieve the feeling of peace, which is what our Chinese civilization expects: peace for the dead, peace for the living and peace for the environment.