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The issue of death anxiety and fear of death is a great concern for health care providers due to the emotional and behavioural outcomes of the recipients of care. Theoretic and observed findings on the death concept have not been thoroughly examined in the nursing research especially towards the elderly point-of-view. This theory generation utilized the grounded theory methodology via inductive approach to theory development that would explain the death experience, consciousness and acceptance towards death in an individuals lifetime. Data were gathered from the older population using purposive sampling. Interviews were semi-structured and based on the death perception and experiences of the older participants. Both memo writing and comparative analysis was used during the course of the study and also aided by the method of open, axial and selective coding. In this study, theoretical categories were generated to derive the following propositions: Overcoming death experiences results to death acceptance; death consciousness influence death acceptance; death acceptance lead to the process of death preparation; and spirituality is an essential element of death experience, death consciousness, death acceptance and death preparation. The theory generated is that death acceptance is an accumulation of death experiences and ones spiritual beliefs which translate to death consciousness that results to the acceptance of ones mortality gearing towards death preparation.