[The meaning of eat in home patients with end-stage cancer]

When a patient difficult to eat, he will not be only malnutrition, but loses a volition of his life and falls into depression. This time, we present a patient with relapse advanced pharynx cancer, who could not ingestion. Therefore she had said "DEATH". She tried eagerly rehabilitation of ingestion, swallowing and breathing, and she was able to eat again and could be positive posture. Ingestion is very important for human, and the patient found a meaning of her life and she was able to take home care nursing.