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Abstract

The attitude towards death among Emergency Care and Midwife nurses is explored in this research. The sample comprised 50 female emergency care and 50 female midwife nurses (N= 100) between the ages of 25 to 35, with an average age of 27.63 (SD = 2.52). Samples were selected through purposive sampling, and one scale was used, Death Attitude Profile – Revised (DAP-R) by Wong et al., 1994. The study found that midwife nurses scored higher than emergency care nurses in the dimension of escape acceptance. At the same time, there wasn’t a more significant difference between the two nursing departments in the dimension of fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance and approach acceptance. Emergency Care Nurses reported that death is seen as a new beginning, so one’s attitude towards death determines one’s attitude towards life and midwife nurses have scored higher on the dimension of Escape Acceptance which views life and a burden and death to be a getaway.