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in: HEMŞİRELİK BAKIMINDA GÜNCEL YAKLAŞIMLAR, Fatma Birgili,Nezihe BULUT UĞURLU, Editor, Bidge Yayınları, Ankara, pp.73-105, 2025
Death, which is the last stage of the individual in psychological and physical sense, is a universal experience shared by all living creatures (Sabuncu, Alpar, Özdilli, 2014: 579-588). Although death is an inevitable end in chronic lethal diseases, it is a process that covers the last weeks, days and hours of life (Fadıloğlu & Hançerlioğlu, 2017: 701-726). Since the personal meaning of death is influenced by the individual's past life experience, each individual can attribute many positive or negative meanings to death. Regardless of the meaning attributed to death by a patient who is approaching death, it is extremely important to ensure the peaceful death of the individual