Objective:

To rethink the potential of psychedelics for the construction of a psycho-spiritual framework at the end of life.

Content synthesis:

With the recent studies that re-confirm the potential of psychedelics to get mystical, static and transcendent experiences, the different approaches to attention at dying patients are facing a resurgent and revalidated psychedelic therapy and an emerging psycho-spiritual paradigm that seeks a dignified death, attending psychological end-of-life disorders such as anxiety, depression and even fear of death itself. Psychedelic therapy favors the construction of a psycho-spiritual framework in the dying person, which is associated with a better protection against depression, despair, demoralization, and even the desire for an accelerated death.

Conclusions:

The autonomy of the dying person to choose what to do or not to do with his body, illness or the end of his life is a prominent issue among the variables in the framework of a dignified death. This work exposes the need to consider the use of psychedelics in order to help the dying patient face their decease with peace, courage and, above all, dignity.

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