PAIN, SUFFERAND PALLIATIVE CARE

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The reason for which human thinking has made such an extraordinary effort over the last 2500 years to find an integral definition for the human being, is because of pain, suffering and death. If these did not exist, the human being would not have needed to find meaning, direction and feeling for pain and death. From here, the importance is to find a definition, the most integral possible which can transverse the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of the terminal/y ill patient, and give them a certain leve/ of spiritual hope, and at the same time becoming a too/ for the health care agent and care taker, and a symbol of hope for them. What can a nurse or doctor be to a terminally ill patient, with only months to live, other than a mercifu/ spirit towards a spirit of divine and fraterna/ conscience?. This attitude is the highest order of human dignity. Key Words:Pain, Terminally  ill, Death, Attitude to death, Hospice care.