Cuidado paliativo como um existencial : um modo humanizado de lidar com a morte e o morrer

Abstract

Palliative care is a practice that contemplates care, the central element used by Heidegger to define man. Therefore, this monograph aims to discuss the importance of palliative care through the bias of existential phenomenological psychology, and how this modality of care faces the anguish of death. To achieve this goal, some contemporary assumptions about the conception of man, body and meaning of life were cited. The result of this process made it possible to understand that the palliative psychologist has the scope of work to help the patient at the end of life to develop the ability to focus on their existence and to give meaning to their experiences. To base the study, bibliographical references of existential humanist authors were sought, by reading books and scientific articles found in the databases of BVSalud, Scielo and CAPS. The work proposes to understand the being-to-death in contemporary times and palliative care as an existential foundation, without intending to exhaust the subject, reaffirming the importance of early care to provide the terminally ill patient with a better model of end-of-life treatment.