Korean Medical Education Review (의학교육논단)

Yonsei university college of medicine (연세대학교 의과대학)
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Considering Death and Condolences from an Educational Perspective: How to Examine Condolences in Response to Death in Death Education

죽음과 애도에 대한 고찰과 교육 가능성 탐색: 죽음 교육에 앞서 죽음에 대한 반응으로서의 '애도'를 어떻게 볼 것인가

  • Lee, Ki-Byung (Divsion of Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • 이기병 (연세대학교 의과대학 강남세브란스병원 내과학교실 통합내과)
  • Received : 2020.09.04
  • Accepted : 2020.10.21
  • Published : 2020.10.31
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Abstract

Medical treatments as universal care have been turning into delivering medical technology. Coping with death, which is prevalent in all medical circumstances, without comprehensive understanding results in missing out on significant aspects between life and death. This makes doctors surrender easily to a conventional and binary division of life and death and reduces the chance of including death as a part of the medical realm. Furthermore, in terms of medical education, we need to have the opportunity to consider such subjects that can benefit from special planning and consideration. Through reviewing articles in a variety of disciplines such as medicine, philosophy, psychology, literature, and anthropology, we can better understand death, condolences, and the relevance between them in a contextual way. In order to seek a better approach, this study also aims to survey and review the recent state of death education in diverse fields of medicine in Korea. In conclusion, if it is complicated for us to explain or understand death in general, focusing on condolences as a human response to death could be one meaningful way that deserves contemplation. It is possible to regard condolences as a touchstone and a prerequisite in death education itself.

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