A Study of Service Experience of Funeral Service Volunteers and Their View of Life-and-Death in a Funeral Affair Administration

• Main Authors: CHIU, PAO-HSIANG, 邱寶祥
• Other Authors: TSAI, CHANG-HSIUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y2226j

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學系碩士班 === 105 === 　　Based on volunteer service, it is a common trend for affluence and aging population. The devotion of funeral volunteers could have a positive effect on society demands. However, for those volunteers involved in the service, there would be something the policy could not cover. Therefore, it is important to raise the phenomenon for personal participation and value. There are many studies about every fields of volunteer but a few involving funeral volunteer services. 　　The purpose of present study is to investigate the service experience of funeral volunteer, and the effect of service experience for the view of life-and-death, life meaning. The main purposes include four points: (a) Understand the background and motivation of funeral volunteers. (b) Realize the experience and work description of funeral volunteers. (c) Death-involved experience and the view of life-and-death of funeral volunteers. (d) Investigation of funeral volunteers on the effect of life meaning and value. 　　To achieve the above purposes, the present study applied qualitative research method. With semi-structure interview, three funeral volunteers been experiencing three years were interviewed. Through thematic analysis method, the practical influence, life meaning of personal and the essential experience from the volunteers were obtained for the characteristics of learning funeral volunteering. The study finds that the volunteers who had had world-breaking experience were likely to devote more energy, have better performance, and go through spiritual transformation. It is hoped that better understanding on funeral volunteer service can be reached. In addition, the local life-and-death education, Funeral Affair Administration with “volunteer manual,” as well as the future volunteers training and recruiting may be benefited.