In hospice palliative care, family's anticipated grief for the coming death of terminal cancer patients always hindered the patient from preparation of good death but also interrupted clinical care by palliative team members. We need to break the blindness (無明) and approach on the uncertainty (無常). Usually in literature about taking care of emotional reaction from foreseeable loved loss, the counseling subject of this anticipated care was focused on the family. While with Buddha Dharma practice(佛法), we turn the family focus into patient centered. Obviously patient's fear of death and family's anticipatory grief become two important spiritual issues. The best way to release patient’s family from entanglement is to alternate and transfer their grief into the power of blessings and support the patient for good death. In this study, we used case reports to highlight the important role of clinical Buddhist chaplains to take care of the terminal patients and demonstrate how to ameliorate the family's anticipatory grief. We apply the twelve links in the chain of existence ”十二因緣法” of Buddha Dharma to clarify family's sufferings using expedient” and supreme approaches (”方便法門” and ”究竟法門”). For clinical guidance of the family, we take advantage of expedient path in order to ameliorate their grief into blessings and empower them to prepare good death for patients. We have concluded the anticipatory grief care into three clinical tasks: to support the patient for good death; to extend life education to the family and to implement the Buddha Dharma in daily practice.
