CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 Section 1. Research Background and Objective 3 Section 2. Research Content and Method 5 CHAPTER 2 Current Status of End-of-Life Care 9 Section 1. Comparison of Quality of Death Index of the OECD countries 11 Section 2. End-of-Life Patients’ Preferred Place of Death 19 Section 3. Subject and Benefits of Hospice Palliative Care 24 CHAPTER 3 Cost Analysis of End-of Life Care 31 Section 1. Method of Analysis 33 Section 2. Results of Analysis 36 CHAPTER 4 Survey on the Awareness of End-of-Life Care Understanding 41 Section 1. Overview of the Survey 43 Section 2. Results of the Survey 44 CHAPTER 5 Analysis of the Social Value of End-of-Life Care 51 Section 1. Method for Measuring Social Values 53 Section 2. Design for Measurement of Social Values of End-of-life Care 55 Section 3. Results of the Measurement of the Social Value regarding End-of-life care 60 CHAPTER 6 Conclusion 67 References 73