This Qualitative nursing research used a helmeneutic phenomenological approach to discover meaning in an self-transcendence experience. The ultimate aim of the inquiry was to discover the essence of self-transcendence experience and to promote understanding. The study used van Manen¡¯s Methodology of phenmonological research. Multiple strategies for data collecting were utilized : in depth face-to-face interview and analysis of elders¡¯ literature. The following themes of experience emerged : Accepting becoming older as a natural phenomenon, transferring to one¡¯s own sons and daughters¡¯ oriented life. Maintaining harmonious relationship with neighbors and peer, observing real situations with silence, forming internal integrity with perseverance, compromising own¡¯s real situation, actualizing one¡¯s death, giving up roots of life, depending on God and conforming to human limitation. From this study essential themes for understanding self-transcendence experience and needs for continuing inquiry were identified.
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