The purpose of this study is to review the theses and dissertations, which focus on any topics on life-and-death studies. We get 323 papers, finished till 2002. The distributions of the papers are as follows: 1. We get 4 papers during 1970s, and more properous during 2000s. 2. There are 295 (91.331%) theses and 28 dissertations (8.669%). 3. This study divides life-and-death studies into ten fields. We get more than ten percnets of our papers on each of this five fields: “philosophical viewpoints on life-and-death”, “psychological viewpoints on life-and-death”, “suicide”, “hospice care”, “grief counseling”, “ritual and cultural viewpoints on life-and-death”, and “religious viewpoints on life-and-death” are the less concerned topics. 4. Qualitative research methods are used most frequently. Quantitative methods are used less; however, some of the papers used both methods at the same time. The numbers (and proportions) are as follows: 197 (61.01%), 88 (27.35%), and 34 (10.05%). 5. The academic backgrounds of the papers are from 60 different graduate institutes (or departments). Fifty-three of the papers we get are from the institute of life-and-death studies of Na-Hwa University (Which is the first graduate institute on life-and-death studies in Taiwan). The conclusions and suggestions are as follows: Researchers should pay more efforts on theoretical foundations of life-and-death studies. Some of the papers are not good enough under the criteria of academic and ethic codes. Some of them need improvements in writing skills and formats. The contents and keywords on Chinese abstracts need to be more precise on several papers. Some researches only imitate or follow the past papers without new contributions on the academic field of life-and-death studies. It is important to encourage more doctoral graduate students to involve in the researches on death-related topics.