Death education: sensibility for caregiving.

Objective: to report the application of a participatory teaching-learning method on the themes death, dying, and associate care to highlight its applicability to the students.

Method: report of application of participatory method in 22 students from the 6th period of the undergraduate program in Nursing and Obstetrics of a public university. The first stage focused on personal experiences of the students and the second on professional prospects.