The power of love takes away the pain

In alleviating the fear that the pain experienced by patients participating in a decisive manner both health professionals and relatives of the sick. That describes David Le Breton, in his book "Anthropology of pain": "Many observations show that the request for euthanasia comes from the resignation of a patient whose vital last few days have no meaning, deprived of the recognition of others, faced indifference and the failure of health personnel, but his pain is taken into account sufficiently. Nothing gives an existence value to the patient feels unworthy and even residual. The company, however, starting from the individual solitude, the desire off death and restores the value of existence.

Accompaniment, the listener, the ability to contain anxiety, hosted by therapists or family suffering from the floor, have a calming effect on pain. In this context, sometimes enough to relieve the patient small doses of analgesic, on the contrary, abandonment, loneliness, stoke the fire of an intense pain that translates suffering, a cry to relatives or therapists, last signal a desire to exist. "