title: [The rescue of the human in the patient who dies].
abstract: In this article I discuss briefly a proposal for the recovery of the essential content of the concept of human nature through the careful attention to ethics which must be received by a terminal ill person in the last phase of life. I propose palliative medicine as a way to rescue the human mind in the life of dying patients to whom the fullness of nature and human dignity belongs. It's about recovering the original medical ethos through the exercise of the virtues through which staff can be trained to recognize the weak, the sick, miserable, the dispossessed are important, are worthy of medicine, used for science: are human and quite valid.
authors.affiliation: Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera-Valencia, Spain. emilio.garcia@uch.ceu.es
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: García Sánchez
mesh_terms: D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D013795:Thanatology