Humanism ∼
Originated from Human

Reporters: Li Xuan, Jia Yuan
and Xin Yi Teacher

“Human” is the ultimate “goal” of itself
instead of the “tool” to achieve its goal...

What is humanism

At the time while Long Yan Humanistic Enterprise shouts the “Humanism” loudly, we are facing a problem; we have to explain “What is humanism” to students.

Humanistic Foundation says, “Has human become the ultimate goal? In the life journey, we become the tools to support the family; under the huge institution, we become the tools to accumulate fortune; and under the attention of the nation, we become the tools to enrich the country and build up military power.”

(http://hef.yam.org.tw/abouthef/1/index01.htm )

This also leads us to rethink “The meaning of life” and “The truth of death”. However, for elementary students, such ideas are too far away and too abstract; they could not realize what we are going to communicate – the sadness behind the death and the acquiring and accumulation of life.

However, we still have to tell them what is human's fundamental value and dignity? Expecting them to select and walk on their roads through such thinking, to deploy their life, achieve their ideas and live uniquely.

We discovered life from the questions discussed below:

  1. Passing time
  2. When to die?
  3. Where is death?
  4. Meaning of burying
  5. Funeral and interment in Taiwan
  6. Pre-need funeral agreement
  7. Visiting Long Yan's ossuary tower
  8. Long Yan's service idea
  9. The importance of funeral?!
Practice of faith

Long Yan's humanism

The Long Yan in 21 st century evolved from “Long Yan” to “Long Yan Humanistic”. This is their determination to jump out from traditional funeral company's thinking model and industrial pattern, and upgrade to the milestone of humanistic service business.

“Originated from human, whole life service” is the spiritual field pursued by Long Yan. In the era that funeral and interment were still a forbidden topic, company of this industry could not and unable to be examined publicly, thus consumers usually could not have quality. Therefore, we hope to spread out this business to the public and enable this industry to be considered as a segment of service industry; and also to restate the business purpose of life concerning and give service to life.



The problem of the death of beloved is not just to satisfy customers' need of service procedure, but it has to further devote to the satisfaction of their potential needs in their minds; including sadness assistance, tax laws, culture heritage and worship, life education and the practice of belief; all these need to consider from the viewpoint of “humanism”.

“Recognize the limit of life and then cherish life, plan life and manage life” is Long Yen Life Service's ultimate profound meaning. Humanism is the principle, encourage by humanism and take humanism as the object of existence. This is the persistence, and even the faith of existence.