对于生死问题的关注是儒家伦理生活的主题之一。儒家以现世生活为中心,从生命的重要性、生活的意义、生命与道义的关系一直到生命的终结之处和死后世界,提出了一系列有意义的观点。首先是关于肉体生命的思考。肉体生命是人的存在基础,保全生命、爱惜生命也是任何健全、理性思想或宗教的基本前提。历史的来看,儒家重视现世的肉身存在,敬重生命,对肉体生命的存在抱有理性的珍惜。儒家对人的自然肉身存在具有敬畏之心,“身体发肤,受之父母, Concern over the issue of life and death is one of the main themes of Confucian ethical life. Confucianism takes the life of the world as the center and proposes a series of meaningful views from the importance of life, the meaning of life, the relationship between life and morality, to the end of life and the world after death. The first is thinking about physical life. Physical life is the basis for the existence of human beings. To preserve life and cherish life is also the basic premise of any sound, rational thought or religion. Historically, Confucianism attached importance to the existence of the flesh in the world, respected life, and cherished the rational existence of physical life. Confucianism has awe of the human being’s natural physical existence, ”the body skin, by the parents,