The following work has the aim to develop and present the vicissitudes that patients diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, which makes them face the possibility of death, experience. Special mention and emphasis will be made on the contributions that can made from Palliative Care and, especially from our discipline, Psychology. Firstly, we start by raising some questions and concerns that we have as mental health professionals, which will give room to debate and theoretical articulation. Secondly, we provide contributions that, from Psychology, help to humanize medical practice at the end of life: they bet on subjectivity, on listening to the patient and his/her family and on enabling them to have a voice in the process of living and dying. Thirdly, we present and describe in greater detail what is theorized from Lev Tolstoy's novel ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’, taking different p...

Throughout this text, we will analyze the concept of time and how this time could determine or limit what we understand in palliative care as "dying well". To understand these concepts, we use the bibliographic review as a work methodology, we search for authors from various disciplines, who suggest thinking about dying well, the subjective and chronological time. The review consists of an approach to the concepts, ideas, theories that motivate us to raise some questions regarding our practice, and thus, produce this writing. The following questions will guide this analysis: what happens when the chronological time of the disease is not the necessary time to accompany the speed with which death presents itself in the subjectivity of the patient and their family?, is there an ideal death?, should we all go through an ideal death?, what happens when chronological time does not allow us to ...