死亡赔偿金制度一直受学术界和公众的广泛批评,死亡赔偿金标准的不统一是其遭受批判的主要原因。本文试从其性质入手,深入分析对死亡赔偿金制度批判的原因以及死亡赔偿金标准差异的合理性因素。死亡赔偿金的性质能否被社会公众所知晓,能否被社会可接受,都是该制度设计所要考虑的问题。 The death compensation system has been widely criticized by academics and the public. The non-uniform standard of death compensation is the main reason for its being criticized. This article tries to start from its nature, deeply analyzes the reason of the critique of the system of death compensation and the rationality of the standard of death compensation. Whether the nature of the death compensation can be known to the public or not and whether it can be accepted by the society is a question to be considered in the design of the system.