According to Wang Yunling, students can openly discuss death topics in class, such as dignified death, hospice care and euthanasia. He will also set topics and situations to flip the classroom, mixed teaching and other forms, so that students can express their views freely. Considering only theoretical education, it is difficult for students to have a deep feeling. He also led the students to the funeral home to see the whole funeral process. "Let students stand at the end of their lives and rethink and plan their own lives. View life by death, live by death, and establish a correct view of life and death. "
"As a medical student, in the future career, it is inevitable to face the departure of life. If you can't treat death correctly, you can't engage in this profession calmly. " Ouyang (a pseudonym), a clinical medical student in the School of Basic Medicine of Shandong University who attended the course of "Death Education", told the reporter that after listening to the class, she had a deeper understanding of death, and she was no longer afraid and taboo about the topic of death as before, but learned to face it with a natural attitude.
Liu Yao (not her real name), who majored in Ouyang, said that she felt sorry and sad whenever she got news that some young people committed suicide or hurt others because of contradictions on the Internet. "They lack awe of life, regard death as a kind of liberation, fail to correctly handle the relationship between life and death, and fail to realize the value of life and the meaning of living. This course has taught me to cherish every day and everyone I meet in my life. "
"Not only young students need to take this course, but also primary and secondary school students and ordinary people should receive life education in time." Wang Yunling believes that at present, some teenagers take drugs, commit suicide or hurt others, which reflects the lack of death education. It is very necessary to educate the whole people and society about death, help the public to establish a scientific and correct view of life and death, understand the value of life, and learn to respect and fear life, so as to reduce the occurrence of vicious incidents.
Wang Yunling also mentioned that from the current situation of the whole social development, China's aging population is accelerating, and the pressure of providing for the aged is great. How to treat and take care of the elderly, especially those who are disabled or seriously ill, involves the dignity of life and the quality of death at the last moment of life. National Health Commission and China are vigorously promoting hospice care throughout the country, paying attention to life and acknowledging that death is a normal process. It is necessary to minimize the physical pain of dying patients and let them walk calmly and with dignity. "Popularizing death education is conducive to improving people's ability to resist setbacks and stress when facing death, and to treat life and death farewell more objectively."
"Although there are more than 20 universities in China offering courses related to death education, compared with the overall development scale of domestic universities and the number of college students, such popularity is far from enough." Wang Yunling said that the theoretical method and practical mode of developing death education in China need to be further enriched and improved. The future should face the whole society and cover the whole process from primary school to middle school to university. "Guide the public to get rid of their inherent concepts, face up to death, overcome their fears, and at the same time understand and appreciate the value of life, and better cherish and respect the lives of themselves and others."