Abstract
The purpose of this study was to longitudinally assess the effects of a death education program for nursing students, in which the encoffining process was learned experientially. This study consisted of a quasi-experiment, and two surveys administered longitudinally (Study 1), to evaluate changes in the perspective of death over time. Furthermore, the effect of the participants' religiousness was also examined (Study 2). Results revealed that experiential death education was effective in reducing negative perspectives toward death, increasing more positive perspectives. However, the experiment fell short of inducing lasting change in perspective. Finally, religiousness was found to influence the amount of effect experiential death education had on the perspective toward death.
