”Saving lives” is a familiar phrase and a timeless proposition in medicine. Hospice care is a way to give up the futile and ineffective treatment of terminal patients and replace it with humanistic care and hospice, so that patients can die with more dignity. However, there is a general lack of attention to end-of-life care in China and other countries around the world, which often leaves doctors in the awkward position of “not knowing what to say or do” when faced with a dying patient. Hospice care has been absent from medical education in China for many years, and health care workers do not know how to handle death properly and how to communicate with patients and their families, which leads to frequent conflicts between doctors and patients. In addition to doctors and nurses, hospice care should involve administrative, legal, religious, volunteer and charitable people, and requires the support and understanding of the whole society. In the face of dying patients, the focus of doctors’ treatment should change from causal treatment to symptomatic treatment, mainly to control patients’ symptoms and make them as comfortable as possible, while doing a good job of psychological guidance for patients and their relatives and friends, and coordinating various social relationships. The nursing department of Cancer Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences once conducted a special survey on the dying will of tumor patients, and 39.2% of the patients who expressed their wish to die at home took the first place in the survey. This figure is in line with the international trend of “dying at home”, and also indicates that most of the urban residents are currently arranged to die in hospitals, which is not in line with the intention of a considerable number of patients. With the improvement of housing conditions and the implementation of the community health care system and general practitioner system, “dying at home” is bound to become an option for more patients. Studies have proved that the warm environment of a family and the atmosphere of family friendship will effectively reduce the occurrence of neuropsychiatric symptoms such as delirium in patients, and there is no risk of cross-infection in the hospital, therefore, with respect to the patient’s wishes, home dying should be promoted. In fact, as long as there is death, there is a need for hospice care. Hospice care is not just waiting for death, but is a positive medical act that follows the trend and truly reflects the humane nature of medicine. Today, there are few professional palliative care professionals in China, and building up a professional palliative care team is the first condition for the development of hospice care. Secondly, the practice of hospice care needs the support of law, and the government should implement the corresponding legislation. Finally, a health insurance system that truly conforms to the laws of medical care should be established, and health resources should be used rationally in order to maintain the dignity of life and reflect fairness and justice. All these, however, require more attention and support from the whole society and the government in order to be accomplished.