Introduction:

Nurses are responsible for the care of being, therefore it has become necessary to investigate the attitude and thoughts of nurses by witnessing the phenomenon of death to describe their professional perspective based on their experience.

Objective:

To reveal the lived experience of nurses in the care of the elder in the process of chronicity-death.

Method:

Phenomenological qualitative study based on the experience of six nurses, through a phenomenological interview. The sample size was by scope or exceeding a significance saturation point, using the reference string technique. Authorization was requested through informed consent form. Considering a methodological rigor focused on credibility, transferability, dependence, and conformability. Phenomenological analysis went through the stages of description, reduction and understanding.

Results:

The age of the participants is between 27 and 43, being five female and one male, with 6 to 20 years of professional exercise. Obtaining twenty-six subtopics, intuitively grouped into seven units of Ontic meaning (Sickness to Death, Metapsychophysical Requirements, The Lawyer of Being in Finesse and Formation of a Whole) and Ontological (Introjecting Death, Nursing Intent, Sorge to Death).

Conclusion:

Nurses showed difficulties in dealing with the end of life revealing a complicated acceptance, thus emerging, the need to study death through courses of thanatology to provide a good death and to be able to face this reality with which it coexists daily in hospital environment.

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