Death-related issues are difficult to learn in the formal school curriculum; however, personal experiences with death can help nurses to improve their ability to provide end-of-life care and to cope and adapt when caring for an individual approaching the end of life in clinical settings. The purpose of this study was to (1) explore the correlation between end-of-life care ability and personal experiences with death among clinical nurses and (2) propose educational strategies and directions for nurses. Data were gathered from a study of the Research Center for Humanities and the Social Sciences database. A survey of ＂Death Education on Nursing College Students' Attitudes toward Death and Their Nursing Behaviors in Caring for the Dying Patients＂ was completed by144 clinical nurses and analyzed. Results showed that (1) commonly reported death-related experiences included subjects attended funerals (93.0%) and subjects had experience of caring for dying patients (91.7%). The best quality for providing end-of-life care for death competence is self-observation skills, whereas the most difficult quality is coping with grief. In addition, the best end-of-life care behavior is to make end-of-life care as peaceful as possible and (2) death-related experience factors that influenced the ability to provide end-of- life care included obtaining death education from lectures or at school, participating in end-of-life workshops, and drafting living wills. Nurses who had the above experiences had better abilities were more equipped to provide end-of-life care for death competence than those who did not, and this was statistically significant (p ＜ .05). Furthermore, factors that influenced end-of-life nursing care behaviors included participants having drafted living wills; again, this was statistically significant (p ＜ .05). It is recommended that lectures or workshops that include death education and simulation experience be increased, and the appropriate attitude toward death competence and the abilities of end-of-life care behaviors among nursing staff in clinics be improved when caring for dying patients.