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Family and Palliative Care – When the Man Accepts the Will of God. The suffering and the illness are almost the most popular subject in the Romanian world. It is known that to accept the incurable illness and terminate phase of cancer is the most difficult life mission we could ever have in the era of scientific development. Why is there so much pain in the world? This is one of the questions the article tries to answer to. The family is the context to live such difficult moments. Are the family members still helping when the illness is covering our body? The second part of this paper introduces some ways to find an answer to this question, as well. And, finally, the last part of this article talks about the palliative care and how it gives the most to the terminate patients in a selfish world. The system of palliative care needs to be improved in Romania as well; this is how we can keep the most important human quality, that of being human.

Keywords: family, palliative, illness, pain, suffering, death.