How to Die Well | Dr. Farr Curlin
The Thomistic Institute
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Hospice and Palliative Care Helps Patients Who Are Dying
Hospice and palliative care helps patients who are dying by attending to the spiritual dimensions of patients' experiences. The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care identifies spiritual, religious, and existential aspects of care as the fifth of eight core domains of palliatives care. For a patient like LC, the most important part of living well in the face of impending death will happen in relationship with those to whom the patient belongs. Because hospice moves the patient out into the community and invites the community into the spaces of health care, it helps to make patients, family, friends, neighbors, and clergy feel empowered to contribute to what LC needs to die well.
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