Why Learn About Death?

Among other benefits, death education can help us to:

Assist the individual in developing a personal eschatology by specifying the relationship between life and death.
Understand the dynamics of grief and mourning and the reactions of differing age groups to the death of a “significant other.”
Promote comfortable and intelligent interaction with the dying as human beings that are, indeed, living until they are dead.
Educate students about death so they grow with a minimum of death-related anxieties, which are too often based upon irrationality and myth rather than fact.
Understand the role of those involved in the death system and the assets and liabilities of that system.
Educate consumers to the commercial death market.
Recognize the variations involved in aspects of death both within and among cultures.
Cultivate a more realistic comprehension of the consequences of behaviors such as drunk driving, consuming drugs, smoking, and other risky and life-threatening acts.
Know the false idols and mythology existing in the growing field of death study, the salient heuristic questions, and the great need for learning more.