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Abstract: Objective: To explore the attitude to advanced cancer and death among family members of advanced cancer patients, and to explore the significance of good death education in community palliative care. Method: We recruited 26 advanced cancer patients' (18 of the 26 patients died) family members who accepted community palliative care using purposive sampling method. We conducted 3 group interviews to collect the data about the reflection, behavior,and feelings of the family members and analyzed the data by the phenomenological approach. Results: We got two themes.One was that the family members had objective understanding of their relatives' death, but most of them could not face the reality calmly. Another was that most family members avoided to talk about the death with the patients themselves and most patients had fear and evasion to death, except few believer of religion. Conclusion: The community advanced cancer patients and their family members' attitudes of death are not in accordance with good death concept. We could improve their attitude step by step through good death education. The death education in community should start from the family members by satisfying their psychology needs and providing their psychological support.
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