[Explanation] On April 2nd, the Chinese traditional festival Tomb-sweeping Festival is approaching, and the "death education courses" and "life education courses" offered by major colleges and universities have once again attracted widespread attention.

Visit the funeral home, observe the cremation of the remains... Related courses use flexible and diverse teaching methods to guide students to face death and fear life.

According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 20 colleges and universities in China offering death education-related courses.

  [Explanation] As one of the earliest universities in China that launched the "Death Education Course", Shandong University has been offering courses for 14 consecutive years.

As early as 2006, Wang Yunling, an associate professor at Shandong University School of Basic Medicine, discovered that some students were afraid and anxious about the dissection of the body, and some students were taboo to talk about death. These were all due to the fact that the students did not form a correct view of life and death.

After that, Shandong University offers an elective course called "Death Culture and Life and Death Education" for clinical medicine students every fall semester, called "Talking about Death", which is actually "On Life".

  [Concurrent] Wang Yunling, Associate Professor, School of Basic Medicine, Shandong University

  For students majoring in clinical medicine, they are dealing with patients.

We say that Chinese traditional medical ethics teaches people to save lives at all costs. In fact, it embodies a sense of awe for life. How to cultivate clinical medicine students' awe for the lives of patients? I think death education can also be used. Play some role.

  [Explanation] Wang Yunling said that students can openly discuss death topics in class, such as death with dignity, tranquillity, and euthanasia.

Considering that only the theoretical education is carried out, it is difficult for the students to have a deep feeling, he also led the students to the funeral home to visit the complete funeral process.

Let students stand at the end of their lives to rethink and plan their own lives.

  [Concurrent] Wang Yunling, Associate Professor, School of Basic Medicine, Shandong University.,

  Using more flexible teaching methods will have a more lasting impact on their ability to cope with death.

After taking this course, he felt that he could openly discuss this issue with his friends and relatives in the sun. When the student can reach this level, from the perspective of life and death, the student has reached death. The state of desensitization, death desensitization means that the term death is no longer regarded as a taboo.

  [Explanation] Ouyang, a clinical medicine student from Shandong University School of Basic Medicine who took the "Death Education Course", had a deeper understanding of death after finishing the course.

She said that as a medical student, it is inevitable to face the departure of life in the future career. If you can't view death in a correct way, you can't calmly engage in this profession.

  [Concurrent] Ouyang, a clinical medicine student, Shandong University School of Basic Medicine

  As a medical student, I will definitely work in a hospital in the future.

When treating patients in the hospital, when treating every patient, you should do your best to treat them, because everyone has their own family and has their own job, so you should put yourself in their place and think about them.

  [Explanation] Liu Yao, who is from the same major as Ouyang, feels sorry and sad whenever she posts social news about young people committing suicide or hurting others due to conflicts and conflicts on the Internet.

  [Concurrent] Liu Yao, a student of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, Shandong University

  When I see news like this, I first feel very sorry and sad.

I think they may not have a correct understanding of death, so when dealing with the relationship between life and death, they may walk into some misunderstandings, because they cannot understand death correctly, so they cannot appreciate the preciousness of life and the value of living. significance.

  [Explanation] Wang Yunling believes that although more than 20 colleges and universities in China offer death education-related courses, compared with the overall development scale of domestic colleges and universities and the number of college students, such popularity is far from enough.

The theoretical methods and practical models for carrying out death education in China need to be further enriched and perfected to guide the public to get rid of their inherent concepts, face death squarely, and at the same time recognize and appreciate the value of life.

  Yang Fei reports from Jinan

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]