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We are happy to have been invited to participate in the 3rd International Congress of Oncology of Hospital Angeles Health System organizing a Symposium in Thanatology (by the way, congratulations to the organizing team, you did a great job) because health professionals have realized how thanatology can be useful not only for the patients and their families, but also for themselves. As a doctor's wife I had realized years ago that there was a gap in the support and emotional containment to patients and their families in those situations of adverse diagnoses or losses. All of them were in pain, as well as their health team itself. Thanatology is a discipline that accompanies a person in all the losses that can be lived, listening to the grieving person in an empathetic and active way, containing them emotionally and validating the management of emotions and feelings that they are managing to do. The persons are accompanied to find the best way to live their grief according to their own resources. The task continues, and if we all add up our own resources and skills in various fields, we will be able to help heal the body and soul of our patients.