Humanized assistance in the terminal phase

Abstract

Some reflections on the humanized assistance to terminal patients are presented, namely that modern Medicine considers death as a physical phenomenon resulting from a series of measurable facts but does not take into consideration the transcendental death of the person with feelings, morality and spirituality. Good listening should be offered and catharsis stimulated to allow the patient to advance from the archaic phase of suffering to that of communication and solidarity, specially through the sense of tact.