This study aims to verify how a program of education for preparing
death has effect on baby boomers’ attitude towards death (emotional
anxiety, cognitive acceptance, behavioral response) and meaning of life.
We conducted 12-session death preparing educations for baby boomers
and measured the results of training using pre and post comparison
test of heterogenous control group as experimental design. The research
involved 80 baby boomers (born from 1955 to 1963, 40 persons in
experimental group, 40 persons in control group) from 1st of September
to 2016 to 15th of February, 2017 at D Education and Culture Center
in D Metropolitan City. 12-session program of education for preparing
death (100 minutes per education) was conducted in experimental
group. To evaluate the effects of the experimental and control groups
on the major dependent variables (the attitude on death and the
meaning of life) at three intervals(pre-test, post-test, and 10 weeks
follow-up), we used independent t-test, covariance test, ANCOVA,
matching sample t-test, which showed meaningful influence on baby
boomers’ attitude towards death and the change of meaning of their
lives. Based on the results of this research, the proposal for base of
managing and implementing program of death preparing education for
baby boomers has been suggested.