Metchnikoff chose to focus on two new areas of study, gerontology and thanatology. However, this is only one of several important books in the field of thanatology. The Association seeks to improve the study and practices related to thanatology. He is the pioneering physician to introduce scientific thanatology and spiritual psychiatry in Bangladesh. Death education is formally known as thanatology. Schroeder-Sheker was honored by the New York Open Center in 1997 for her "Music Thanatology". In 2018 she became the Canada 150 research chair in thanatology. Therefore, the science of thanatology is fairly new for the most part. She is a thanatology expert on the decomposition of human bodies. Thanatology is the study of death among human beings. Thanatology is the academic and scientific study of death among human beings. As an interdisciplinary study, thanatology relies on collaboration with many different fields of study.