Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and understand life and meaning in life of elementary school students. Methods: Data from 1,790 higher grade elementary school students were analyzed for content of meaning in life. Results: The students described the following: 1) Meanings of living existence included, ``living things``, ``importance``, ``human life``, ``family``, ``event``, ``eternity``, ``origin of life``, ``disease``, and, ``protection``. 2) Four categories were found for reasons why human life is important, ``solitary``, ``limitation``, ``valuables``, and ``living``. 3) Things that one can do to protect the value of human life were, ``doing safely``, ``keep things well``, ``altruistic behavior``, ``doing sound activity``, ``preservation & development``, and ``devotion of oneself``. 4) Meaning of life included ``to accomplish plans``, and ``to do things`` 5) Cases when students felt life had meaning were ``perform meaningful behavior``, ``comfortable emotionally``, and ``receiving help from others``. 6) The methods by which to live a meaningful life were ``working diligently``, ``serving``, and ``doing rightly``. Conclusion: These results suggest that students recognize the meaning of life in a most positive way and with a relatively wide scope, but as a few students had a negative orientation, age-appropriate and more systematic education programs are needed.