Palliative care allows the child to:
1. Have a graceful, natural death.
2. Attempt to use every type of medical process possible to sustain life.
3. Abruptly end life.
4. Comfort the family before death.
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1. Palliative care focuses on the natural death process in the most comforting way possible.
2. Medical processes to sustain life are not considered important in palliative care.
3. Palliative care works with patients once a terminal illness is diagnosed in order to have a plan of care.
4. Palliative care helps comfort the family and the patient.
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