This study sets out to ascertain adolescents’ attitudes and opinions towards death education. To this end two instruments were designed and validated: the ‘Death Education Attitudes Scale-Students’ and the ‘Death Education Questionnaire-Students’. The total sample comprised 1897 secondary school students aged 12–19. Participants showed moderately positive attitudes towards death education. Variables such as gender, age and religious beliefs influenced results. Death is not unfamiliar to adolescents; on the contrary, it affects them through the loss of loved ones, and they saw themselves as capable of reflecting on it. The study has implications for the training of teachers and families and for the inclusion of the awareness of death in curricula and in educational policies on national and international levels.

本研究旨在确定青少年对死亡教育的态度和意见。为此，设计并验证了两种工具：“死亡教育态度量表-学生”和“死亡教育问卷-学生”。总样本包括 1897 名 12-19 岁的中学生。参与者对死亡教育表现出中等积极的态度。性别、年龄和宗教信仰等变量会影响结果。死亡对青少年来说并不陌生。相反，它通过失去亲人而影响他们，他们认为自己有能力对此进行反思。该研究对教师和家庭的培训以及将死亡意识纳入国家和国际层面的课程和教育政策具有影响。