Palliative care and advanced disease - Part 2

When a person is diagnosed with cancer or an incurable disease, they have a characteristic emotional response: an initial period of shock and disbelief followed by a series of reactions of anxiety and sadness. Then a basic attitude is formed that leads the person to live their experience in a positive or negative way. This attitude depends on psychological, social, economic, spiritual variables and on the interpretation that is made of the experience that is being lived. Therefore, in response to the stress that dying and death entail, different behaviors are presented and each patient will carry out their trajectory according to your lifestyle and your personality.