고독사의 법적 개념에 대한 입법정책적 개선방안

Due to urbanization and civilization, one of the phenomena that began to occur is the increase in the number of people living alone due to the development of various convenience facilities, the spread of individualist values, human rights, and differences in personality. Recently, however, live together lonely death have occurred, raising the risk. In the beginning, most of the elderly died alone due to unemployment or economic ability, but as the number of single people has increased due to the spread of individualist values and conflicts of human rights, sense of rights, and values, there are also lonely deaths regardless of economic power and age. The Lonely Death Prevention Act was enacted in 2020, but it was legislated without reflecting it, and I would like to make some questions and suggestions. First, differentiation is needed for the elderly. Instead of judging the elderly as senior citizens over 65 years of age uniformly, the method of solitude needs to be expanded to middle-aged people or judged based on the age of 55 or 60 or older. Second, the concept of solitude needs to be diversified. Most ordinances target elderly people who live alone, so policy cannot be taken into account for solitary vipers. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent solitude by adding this. Through this, the standard maintenance of statistics based on the time of discovery of the body and the time of death should be made, not on the current statistics on the deaths of unconnected people. To this end, an amendment to “The Lonely Death Prevention Act” is required.