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This research is a qualitative research that examines the meaning of life of an elderly who spends the rest of his life in a nursing home due to post-death of his wife and having no children. The purpose of this study is to find out what the description of the meaning of life of elderly who spends the rest of his life in a nursing home and the process of discovering the meaning of life of elderly who spends the rest of his life in a nursing home due to post-death of his wife and having no children. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The technique of data recording from this case study will use event sampling technique. The data analyzed are the results of interviews with one elderly subject who is 70 years old and lives in a nursing home. The results of this study indicate that the subject has reached a meaningful life after the death of his partner. The success of the subject in achieving meaningfulness of life is because the subject has fulfilled the three components of life meaning stated by Frankl (Bastaman, 2007), namely the freedom of will, the will to meaning, and the meaning of life, and has been able to realize the three values that are the source of life-s meaning, namely creative value, appreciation value, and value to behave.