On 13 February 2024.
On behalf of the international Buddhist Studies College,MCU. Demonstrating kindness, Extending gratitude to the presentation on the topic A Tour Guide to Modern Life-and-Death Studies and Its Future Prospects.
現代生死學導覽及其未來展望.
By: Most Venerable. Prof. Dr. Huei Kai
•Deputy Abbot, Fo Guang Shan Monastery
• Professor, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, Department of Life-and-Death Studies, Nanhua University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
• Ph.D. in Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 1997.
In this especially lecture in this time he mentioned about the issues of death and suicide in modern society that.
Present how to think and guidelines the following theories of the existentialism focuses on inspired the international suicide prevention movement after World War II, and also prompted European and American countries to begin to pay attention to the discussion and research of "Thanatology." Another he said about The Origins of Death Education in North America and learned theories of •T. S. Eliot (1888^1965), the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 and a famous poet and literary critic, was the first to advocate in 1955 that "death education" and “sex education" are equally important and necessary. she proposed the epoch-making "Five Stages of Death" for the first time, and it was also the first time she conducted a theoretical exploration and description of death psychology and death phenomena.
Therefore, The issues of life-and-death that it focuses on are holistic and comprehensive, going beyond the value orientation, self-choice, etc. that arise when an individual faces his/her own issues of life-and-death alone. Rather, it concerns issues such as “birth, old age (aging), illness, death & dying" and various life-and-death events and phenomena arise in groups and societies, and are closely related to medical, social, political, legal,conomic, ethical, and cultural aspects.
