The Life and Death of the Latter-Life Elderly in the Movie 〈Amour〉 : Life without Death, Death without Life

The purpose of this study is to analyze and understand the life and death of the latter-life elderly in the movie 〈Amour〉 from a social welfare perspective. Accordingly, the scenes and scripts of the film were analyzed using the narrative inquiry method, focusing on the lives and death of the main couple, the latter-life elderly. As a result, they are a couple in their 80s, retired music professors living in Paris, France, and they are enjoying a comfortable middle-class latter-life old age economically, culturally, socially, and familiarly. However, in their latter-life old age, death was excluded and unprepared for. Then the wife suffered a storke, and their comfortable middle-class latter-life lives were rapidly transforming into a dying process that was exhausting under the dual pain of care and death. And the dying process from which these lives were excluded was finally brought to a tragic end of murder and suicide. That is, the lives of this couple in their latter-life old age were lives in which deaths were excluded, and their deaths were brought forward through death in which lives were excluded. Based on these findings, the implications for the life and death of the latter-life elderly were discussed from a social welfare perspective.