This paper reports on the comparisons of hospice care nurses (HCNs) with nonhospice nurses (TCNs) in relation to their education regarding dying and death and their levels of death anxiety. The HCNs had had significantly more educational preparation than did the TCNs in the dying process, death, and the care of the terminally ill. However, the two groups were not significantly different in their levels of death anxiety, as measured by Templer's Death Anxiety Scale. Possible reasons for this finding are discussed