This is a study about nursing intervention with the patient in iminent death. This is to verify what is tre relation between nurses' personal and professional values and death. The nursing intervention often mentionated were: clear up about illness and death and theis consequence (43.8%) to the patients who wanted to know why they were dying; and psychologic support (36.8%) to patients who refused to die. The results demonstrated that the nurse has the responsability to prepare the patient in psychologic, social and spiritual aspects to die, but there are personal and professional conflicts about death and nursing intervention