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This study was to explore the meaning of home visiting nurses’ understanding of death through the experience of home nursing. For the study, two home visiting nurses who are working at higher-level general hospitals were selected to have regular interviews, using narrative inquiry method. Study participants experienced end-of-life nursing, (traffic) accidents, and family deaths at different locations, at different times, and in different situations. The experiences of death were arranged and composed in narrative form. Ms. Park experienced death while performing home nursing. She learnt death from the-end-of life care and recognized that rainbow nursing, family anxiety from death at home, freeing up patients with customized care, how close the death is to her, difficulties of choices, giving out and leaving when one can give and thankfulness for living. To Ms. Han, death appeared, as a dignified death, the question of ‘Am I Grim Reaper?’, a remaining homework, a hard choice, a postmortal body as a tool, something that is hard to define and a life of positiveness. Summerizing the meaning of home nurses’ understanding of death, first, death is a scene of memories. Second, death causes difficult choices. Third, death is still scary. Fourth, we should prepare for death as it will becoming somedays. Fifth, we should live with gratitude for being and living in the moment. Home-visiting nurses who perform end-of-life nursing care defined the meaning of death in diverse ways, combining their personal experiences with the experience of patients death.

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