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This study aims to identify the influencing factors on the preparation education for well-dying of university students. To this end, this study investigated the 162 medical science students who had attended the thanatology lecture at K-university in Daejeon Metropolitan city for 15 weeks from March 1 to August 31 2014 after excluding those non-respondents. As for the continuous variables, independent sample t-verification was performed. Also, multiple regression was conducted with the factors affecting educational contents as the dependent variables. As a result of conducting the thanatology lecture as a class of liberal studies for one semester, one lecture a week for 4 weeks to death preparation experts would be suitable(p<0.05) by making it as a regular class of university curriculum(p<0.001). Consequently, the education on death for undergraduate students of health and medical science department will lead to an increased need for understanding and death education on death by allowing them to look at their life and the phenomena related to death from the perspective of humanities and also the psychological and spiritual views. Moreover, it will be utilized as preliminary data for the development of death education program in addition to an improvement for the negative awareness of death among students.