Objective: To describe the nursing professional's experiences with patients in the process of agony, in the Internal Medicine services of men and women at the Las Mercedes Teaching Hospital. Method: Qualitative study, with a case study approach. Eight nurses participated with informed consent, the sample was non-pyrobalistic and was determined by the saturation and redundancy technique. In the data collection, the semi-structured interview validated by expert judgment was used and in the data process, content analysis was used, the atopic principles and scientific rigor supported the investigation. Main results: Three categories emerged; emotions and shocking experiences during the patient's agony stage; patient care in the agony process and formative recommendations for patient coping in the agony process. Overall conclusion: When nursing professionals provide care to agony patients, th...

The historian Ruth Magali Rosas Navarro has published the result of her doctoral thesis in the monograph Agony, death and salvation in the north of the Peruvian Viceroyalty: 1780-1821 (Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2019). The work shows us in detail the concerns and preparations made when a person felt that his last hours were approaching. Facing illness, death and what came after were not solitary acts, but in the different processes the individual encountered specific characters and institutions that played a key role. Divided into three chapters, the annotated monograph focuses on the Piura region, north of the Peruvian coast, and covers the last fifty years of the colonial period, a stage in which the culture of death had its own characteristics.