In this study, afterlife view, death preparation, and spiritual well-being of
religious attitude on death are internalized in which proper awareness and
attitude on death is formed to relieve anxiety of death and develop
practical intervention techniques in welfare for the aged scenes to live
satisfying old ages. In this study, survey items were read and answered
subject for interview investigation to elders in their 65s or older who
desired to participate in the survey living in Wonju City in which a total of
175 subjects completed the survey investigation. Excluding insincere
responses, only 153 copies of reliable surveys were used for statistics. For
the main results of this study, multiple regression analysis to analyze the
influence of afterlife view, death preparation, and spiritual well-being on
attitude of death in which statistically significant influence relationship was
shown and influence was shown in death preparation and spiritual
well-being order. Afterlife view showed independent influence, but it was
shown to be a variable that does not show significant influence when the
other two variables were simultaneously applied. Second, as result of
analyzing influence of independent variables with added afterlife view, death
preparation, and spiritual well-being on attitude of death after controlling
sociodemographic variables, statistically significant influence relationship was
shown in 95% reliability level. Investigating by independent variables, death
preparation and spiritual well-being have significant influence among
independent variables and it was found in this study that death preparation
and spiritual well-being affect life quality of the aged in which spiritual
well-being has large influence in relieving anxiety of death. This study has
characteristic of empirically verifying that afterlife view, spiritual well-being,
and attitude on death can positively relieve anxiety on death. Rather than
views on afterlife, duration of spiritual existence, and being afraid of death
with family members, death can be overcome when facing death with a
preparing attitude and old ages can be designed in positive direction.