The Necessity of Education on Quality of Life and Death Preparation in Old Age Through Content Analysis of the Movie ‘I Love You’

This study aimed to understand the lives of the elderly living in a super-aging society through the four elderly people appearing in the movie “I Love You” and emphasize the necessity of death p3, reparation education for improving the quality of life in old age and for a beautifulending. The analysis method was to extract content corresponding to the lives of the elderly from the dialogues of the four elderly people, including the main characters Kim Man-seok, Jang Gun-bong, Song I-pun, and Jo Soon-i, and to analyze them chronologically using the matrix analysis method, a qualitative research method. The analysis results showed that the elderly people appearing in the movie were experiencing problems in their lives such as poverty, illness, and loneliness, as well as tasks of life in old age such as bereavement and death (suicide), the desire to learn, and issues related to supporting parents. However, their attitudes toward life and death were shown to be two types: compliance and suicide. Therefore, the importance of participation through awareness of death preparation education for the elderly living in a super-aging society was emphasized, and the necessity of policies to provide opportunities for the elderly to participate in death preparation education was suggested.