Description
The present work brings a reflection about the deal with the imminence of death before an illness, in the perspective of the people who chose the form of palliation treatment. To that end, the objective of this research is to understand how a subject seriously ill, without possibility of cure, palliation, experiencía as a possibility to experience their illness. Thus, the study focuses on the meanings assigned to palliation, the process of choosing this treatment and the impact of this choice. Five subjects who were interviewed opted for palliation for treatment before a diagnosis of impossibility of curing their illnesses. For the production of research data, the researcher's observations were recorded in a field journal and listening to the sick subjects, through a semidirected interview recorded and transcribed verbatim. The analysis of the narratives and
this journal came from a descriptive analysis of inspiration s Foucault. With respect to the results, it is possible to say that every guy who chose the alleviation, made before the established clinical picture. Thus, they occupied with you, look at you, for your needs, expectations, making alleviation a lifestyle. These patients considered the conscience of his finitude, amid the management of death by the health team, and constituted as subject of their actions, considering its priorities: family, work, leisure and quality of life. What made them deal safely and securely with the impacts of this
choice, the negation of the relatives towards her, for example. Given this, it is concluded that despite a health team management in favor of palliation, seeing her as the good
death, it is possible the subject ill make this choice from its own mode of subjects to subjetive before falling ill, which makes this choice have a singular meaning, particularly, to the guy who considers.
