The main focus in death education is teaching people how to cope with grief.
In the 1960s pioneering professionals like that of Herman Feifel (1959), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1969), and Cicely Saunders (1967) encouraged behavioral scientists, clinicians, and humanists to pay attention and to study death-related topics.
Hospice is an important type of care that helps spread and explain death education to the people.
When people have a loved one that is not able to get anymore help from medication or doctors, it would be a good recommendation for them to go to hospice.
The five key areas are: understanding the dying process, decision making for end of life, loss, grief, and bereavement, assessment and intervention, and traumatic death.
Death education should be taught in perspective and one's emotional response should be proportionate to the occasion.
Much scholarly debate has surrounded the legitimacy of her five "stages" (i.e., denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, respectively).
Instead of being timid and scared of death, people will become comfortable towards the topic and be able to prepare for what will come in the future.