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The death of clients is one of the most challenging stressors for professional caregivers. Confronting the dying and death of his clients represents a confrontation with his own death and mortality. It is therefore important that professional caregivers consciously come into contact with this basic characteristic of every life story and the unconditional destiny of a person (that is, their own destiny), reflect on it and consciously process it. The aim of the presented contribution is to present the results of several of our own researches focused on the analysis of current attitudes towards death among workers in the helping professions. A standardized instrument, The Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R), was used to collect data. The research group consisted of professional caregivers, both health care workers and social service workers. The results of our investigation show that the given topic is often dealt with only on a cognitive level. Professional caregivers have an insight into the topic of death, they rationally understand death as an integral part of life, however, the results in the field of their own emotional processing of the topic somewhat question the clearly rationally conceived perception of death and rather point to the fear of death and the effort to avoid thoughts of death. The findings can be a source for a methodology aimed at deepening the conscious handling of the topic of death among workers in helping professions.