莊子妻子死時「鼓盆而歌」，甚至死後要以「天地為棺槨」，願將自己的屍體為「烏鳶與螻蟻食」，這種面對生死的坦然與豁達態度，正是臨終者及其親友最佳學習的典範，也是照顧臨終者及安寧療護人員的學習對象。本文藉由莊子喪葬思想的激勵與體悟，使吾人在面對自身或親人臨終時，能體現生命的尊嚴，了解死亡的真相及人生的變化，並具備自我調適的能力，坦然接受即將死亡的實情，從而提升臨終者的善終品質，以及減輕生者的哀傷。本研究即旨在透過莊子喪葬思想，闡發其對臨終關懷教育的意義及啟示，同時使現今的臨終關懷的實踐有其理論根基。

Chuang Tzu beat the pot and sang with the rhythm when his wife passed away. What is more, he even decided to make the universe as his casket and would let his remains be eaten by crows, vultures and ants after his death. Such frank and open manner to treat life and death equally is not only the ideal model for life and death education but also the learning object of he hospice care and hospice staffs. So through the encouragement and realization of Chuang Tzu's thoughts of burial, we can realize the dignity of life, understand the truth of death and changes of life as well as obtain the ability of adaptation, accept the fact of death frankly when we confront with the dying of ourselves and our relatives in order to promote the quality of the deathbed-dying and relief the grief of us. In light of Chuang Tzu's thoughts of burial, the thesis intends to explain its numeral significances and on the education of hospice care, so that the practice of the hospice care might has their theoretical foundation.