By profession, I am a specialized oncology nurse working in a medical oncology department and have been actively involved in cancer care for nearly 30 years fulfilling various roles, including frontline nurse, nursing educator, and advanced practice nurse. As an oncology nurse, I have witnessed so many patients' decease, which I couldn't help but was deeply moved by the loss. When I was young, I spent most of my time focusing on practicing nursing techniques. While with the continuous increase of my experience and mental maturity, I realized it was also an important part of my nursing role to provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. So I spent more time to provide compassionate and loving care to patients and their families, and I feel the time I took to listen, sit quietly holding their hand, and allow individuals to speak of their fears was so important to me. I really appreciate the opportunities to care for the patients at the end of life and their families with my profession, compassion, and humanity. Looking back over my nursing career, I once fell into frustration, confusion, and helplessness, but being present with individuals and their families through their personal life stories has changed me to be more gratified and moved. Here, I would like to share with you a few stories. The first story is about promoting a dying patient's physical comfort. I remembered there was a patient with advanced gastric cancer who lived in pain. He could not sleep all night because of the uncontrolled pain. From the conversation, I learned that he was reluctant to take the analgesics prescribed because of his worry about addiction. Addiction typically refers to psychological attachment and the need for ever-increasing doses of a medication after the physical need has been resolved. As a charge nurse, I explained to him what addiction of opioid is, and now his pain did exist without psychological attachment. Additionally, I told him that data based on evidence indicated that the incidence of opioids addiction is extremely low with appropriate pain management. After the conversation, he gradually eliminated the concerns and began to take medicine on time, which helped him sleep better. But the next day he asked me, ‘I won't be able to withdraw the analgesics for the rest of my life, will I?’ I held his hand and said, ‘As your condition improves, it is possible to gradually decrease the dosage. Even if you can't, what's the matter as long as you feel good every day?’ He laughed, ‘You are right. How many years have left to me? I just want to be comfortable.’ Then I told him, ‘Although we can not decide the length of the life, we can live every day comfortable. If you take the analgesics around the clock, you will not only have a good sleep and keep better performance status but also keep in a good mood. Importantly, you can enjoy a joyful time with your family.’ From then on he followed prescribe to take analgesics regularly. Smile returned to his once pale and painful face. There was no excuse for an individual to die in pain given the available resources and current technology of our society. Yet, painful death continues to occur. Acting as an advocate for pain relief is an essential role of the nurse. We should understand pain management for the dying can be complicated influenced by many issues other than the physical presence of pain. When caring for cancer patients with pain, the psychosocial, cultural, spiritual, and emotional dimensions should be taken under consideration. Every dying experience is unique and this story is about supporting the spirituality of a dying patient. I remember she is a young girl diagnosed with terminal cancer admitted to my ward. No one would approach her because of her anger and bad temper. I often went to her bedside trying to be a good listener, and she slowly opened her mind to me. She told me her anxiety and fear of the disease progress, and then told me the stories in her life. I just sat there and fully listened to her, to empathy her suffering and learn about her past. Soon, at the most vulnerable moment of her life, I became her closest listener and supporter. In order to guide her to find the deeper value and meaning in her life, I accompanied her to review the wonderful campus life and the happy time with her classmates and friends, and I introduced her to other patients to exchange ideas, recommended books on life lessons to her, and encouraged her to write down her story and feelings and share them with her friends. Gradually, she changed back to the sunny girl she used to be. Her end-of-life days passed in such a hurry and the train of her life stopped forever on the track of her own 26 years old. I remember she wore her favorite green and white gauze dress when she left. She said green represents energy and white represents purity. She said to me, ‘Dear sister, how lucky I was to meet you when I was most helpless!’ As a nurse, every time in the face of life and death, I continue to inquire myself after loss and grief. I gradually realize that supporting an individual requires an understanding of the importance of retaining the person's dignity and feelings of being valued and comforted. This can only be achieved by active listening, clear communication, and an established rapport. Taking the time to truly listen and share in the emotional and spiritual journey of the dying process is one of the most valuable practices we can provide to the dying patients. Another story is about the family member of a dying patient. I still remember one day when I was on duty, I saw a woman crying alone at the end of the corridor. I went over gently touching her shoulder and handing her a tissue. She suddenly turned around and hugged me, bursting into tears. After a while, she said, ‘The doctor says my husband does not have much time to live. My sister died a year ago, and now my husband is leaving. There would be nobody to listen to me anymore.’ I said, ‘Auntie, you can call me if you want to talk to somebody from now on. I would like to be your listener forever.’ Then I told her ‘life is like a train, the people around us are our travel companions. Some of them can accompany us throughout the journey, while some have to get off midway. The best we can do is to cherish the time we spent together’. After the conversation, she quietly returned to the ward. Afterwards, when I went to the ward again, I saw her and her husband holding hands and talking about their present condition and future arrangements. They discharged the next day according to their wish. Two months later, she came to the hospital and told me the patient had gone at home peacefully with all his wishes finished. She thanked us for the compassionate care at the end of life of her husband. Nurses are in the unique position of possessing the greatest amount of time to interact with the dying patients and their families. When a loved one is dying, the family members full of loss and sadness would feel alone and helpless and thus are often desperate for a voice which come from the nurse. As a nurse, caring itself is just the greatest gift we can give to them. We should be there to identify their unmet need, provide accurate information, and encourage communication with their loved ones to increase as much time as possible for the family to create more loving memories during the final time. Those are the stories I want to share with all of nurses. End of life is an inevitable stage in the journey for all of us as human beings. Each of the dying patients' journey was very different. Every experience I took care of them revealed new insights and learning which further drive my commitment to do much more to make a difference in the patient's hard journey of the dying. Here I want to say, taking more time to care for the dying patients and their family members is never easy, but once you have made a positive difference for them, the rewards can be enormous. The experience will finally nourish you on professional and humanity.