Increasing numbers of elderly are dying at home. Nurses continually illuminate choices for clients who walk the path of terminal illness yet are unaware of the meaning of dying at home for the client. This study is the first to identify the lived experience of dying at home.Participants were 10 white males, 67-83 yrs old,with a mean education of 9 yrs, diagnosed as terminally ill, in Hospice care, Ohio residents and were willing to share the meaning of dying at home. Sample size was determined by redundancy of information.Parses research methodology was used to analyze the unstructured,...