Counselling al final de la vida y en el duelo

Abstract

All of us will face a dying process sooner or later. This paper discusses a way to accompany people during the end of life and grief process based on counselling. It is defined what it means to accompany the dying and mourning process, with special emphasis on the competencies that healthcare professionals need to attend these delicate moments of human life. The paper elaborates on what it means to accompany describing death and to accompany living biographical death. Some challenges in accompaniment of dying are also reviewed from the ethics of care perspective and from the social perspective. Finally, a mode of appropriation of death, the promotion of living will, is reviewed.