End-of-life care provides an opportunity to help a patient find
meaning in the experience of dying. This is a challenge because the
experience of dying can rob a patient of meaning. The first step is to
look at death as being a process of life rather than an event. This is
brought about by welding the broken pieces of the mind–body
connection. Medicine cannot always fix broken pieces, but spiritual
welding always puts us back together again. Compassionate end-of-life care
helps a patient connect spirituality with the search for meaning and
transcendence.