Leu Ying-jong observes that the rise of life and death studies and life education is a reflection of the modern "confrontation with aging, sickness, and death at a time in which opportunities for 'natural' encounters with death have almost vanished completely."
呂應鐘認為，生死學、生命教育的興起反映著現代人「與生老病死遭逢，『自然』面對死亡的機會，幾乎已蕩然無存。」