Everyone has his/her own life story on the personal experience. C. Y. Gerkin called the story `The Living Human Document.´ Pastoral counseling is to listen to and to analyze the story, to integrate past experiences with newly-analyzed experiences, and to give the story a new meaning and to make the subject construct a hopeful world. Ultimately, pastoral counseling is to make the subject to live `a spiritual life,´ a life in which the activities of God for human beings are recognized.
In general, people are anxious and afraid of `sin´ and `death,´ and the latter becomes serious when they are in their old age, the time when people have to think of their own death instead of others´ death. Therefore, it is important in one´s old age howf one makes use of the remaining time, and whether the last chance could be applied may decide whether one can live `a spiritual life.´ The mention of death for the elderly is not `the close of life´ but `the completion of life,´ and should be considered a course in order to complete `the remaining time´ or `the remaining life.´
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