title: Spirituality, meaning, and transcendence.
abstract: End-of-life care provides an opportunity to help a patient find meaning in the experience of dying. This is a challenge because the experience of dying can rob a patient of meaning. The first step is to look at death as being a process of life rather than an event. This is brought about by welding the broken pieces of the mind-body connection. Medicine cannot always fix broken pieces, but spiritual welding always puts us back together again. Compassionate end-of-life care helps a patient connect spirituality with the search for meaning and transcendence.
authors.affiliation: Cape Breton University, P.O. Box 5300, Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6L2, Canada. ken_bryson@uccb.ca
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Bryson
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D028723:Personhood; D029181:Spirituality; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*