Rather than being a morbid field of health care, hospice care celebrates life.
Death is a part of life that is ignored by most people, including some health care workers.
Therefore, there is a huge need for health care workers who are trained in the art of terminal care. Across America some health care workers are often unwilling to give adequate amounts of pain medication to terminal patients. However, when death is inevitable, it cannot be seen as a failure, but merely as an end to life. Again, this demonstrates the need for health care workers who are interested in and who specialize in terminal care. We cannot ignore terminally ill patients, and in fact, are ethically required to make their death as comfortable as possible.