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Know the scientific production of nursing about death / dying in environments Intensive Care Unit. METHODOLOGY: integrative review conducted by the descriptors death, intensive care units and nursing, between the years 2005 and 2011, resulting in a corpus of 14 articles. RESULTS: Three categories were constructed: practice as an object of reflection and change, professional preparation and instrumentation; ethical challenges facing the process of death / dying. CONCLUSION: the scientific literature on death / dying must be redirected, overstepping the bounds investigative search based merely on the perception of the meanings and feelings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]