Abstract: Wang Yangming’s attitude to life-and-death could be fully expressed by his last words——"My heart has been bright and I have nothing to say".On the value of life-and-death,Wang Yangming thought that everyone could obtain the value of life-and-death by practising the morality of loyalty,faith,rite,righteousness,etc.On the transcendence of life-and-death,Wang Yangming saw "the extension of innate knowledge" as the way of transcending life-and-death,and it embodied the aspect that the great Confucians transcended life-and-death by bringing forward a theory.This research will not only put the research of Wang Yangming and Confucius to a deeper degree,but also help the construction of contemporary thanatology.