The education on life and death has been drawing wide attention of late, but no adequate teaching material was available for school children in Japan. In this study, a teaching material for “Death Education” has been developed as a textbook for children of upper grades of elementary school. It is a creative picture book assisted by computer. We place grate emphasis on the Japanese sense and customs concerning death. This teaching material may be used for home economics and many other courses of study. This fifty-three page textbook consists of three parts and thirteen chapters, with each part available for independent use. The first part explains about death, the second part details grief and gives suggestions on how to overcome grief, and the last part suggests that children discuss death with adults. The problem now is how to spread this book while developing more teaching materials designed for students of different ages.
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