The importance of the implementation of palliative care in the Brazilian National Health System

Abstract

The hospitalization of death and the Medicine technological development throughout the twentieth century made death an aseptic and solitary event that removed from the patient the autonomy over the process of dying itself. However, the population aging and the increase in non-transmissible are demanding that Medicine turns its attention to the patient and not only to the disease, stimulating the rethinking about the process of dying and encouraging the patient to reappropriate their own death. Based on bibliographic and normative research, and exploratory methodology, the present article intends to discuss the palliative care as a right to be guaranteed to the terminally ill patient who, in recognizing of the finitude of life, seeks in their final moments physical, mental and spiritual comfort. The resignification of death and the dying process are, today, necessary elements to guarantee the patient's autonomy over their own body and the quality of their life until the final moments, and, from this comes the importance of the Resolution n. 41/18, MS to the Brazilian National Health System.