[To live death in the hospital. The Lendinara School of Nursing].

Issues related to death and dying are important subjects in the educational curriculum of nursing students; in the nursing school of Lendinara this subjects were discussed analysing practical and emotional experience of nursing students. An anonymous questionnaire was distributed to the 74 second and third year students (67 returned) to explore emotional experience and 52 terminal patients were observed during a 3 month period, to obtain data on the care of these patients in the hospital. Data were analysed by nursing students as part of their practical training. Some of the results are presented; results were discussed in the classroom and presented and commented in an open meeting with caring personnel (nurses, doctors, volunteers) involved in the care of dying patients.