title: Pastoral care and the hospice.
abstract: Appropriate pastoral care for the terminally ill must help dying persons face their past, present, and future. The care given must help patients toward reconciliation and resignation, and toward faith in the new life promised by Jesus.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002835:Christianity; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D010327:Pastoral Care; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*