These five palliative care interventions also support the Buddhist belief that one should help and respect others and try to make them feel comfortable (Burnard & Naiyapatana, 2004). In addition, establishing rapport and trust is paramount to delivering quality palliative care, since the nurse must understand a patient’s needs and desires in order to effectively care for the patient at end of life. The responses to the open-ended question about other interventions used to promote dignified dying added many more specific Buddhist-related interventions, such as “read Dharma book,” “make offering of items or food to Buddhist monk,” and “keep Buddha image at the bedside.”