To investigate the current situation of fear of death among nursing undergraduates, and to explore the immediate effect of intervention of death education curriculum on the fear of death among nursing undergraduates. From October to November 2021, cluster sampling was carried out with the class as a unit, and the subjects were subjected to a 5-week death education with a total of 960 minutes. One hundred and twenty-nine nursing undergraduates were conducted with the Fear of Death Scale before the start of the curriculum and on the day after the end of it. The difference in scores of fear of death between students before and after the intervention was compared. After intervention, the score of fear of death of nursing undergraduates decreased (3.56±0.57) with a statistically significant difference (P<0.01) than that before intervention (3.64± 0.64). One hundred and one (80.8%) nursing undergraduates had a positive experience with death education and a good feedback on the teaching of the curriculum. Death education has a positive effect on alleviating the fear of death of the subjects and could be considered to apply in students in other grades or other medical majors in the future.