Among the different words that the term “disease” brings with it, that of incurable disease is perhaps among those that arouses more emotions and more meanings of anger, pain, fear. Talking about incurability, in fact, means talking about that difficult phase of the patient’s history in which medicine “declares its defeat” and surrenders in the face of the advance of the disease itself. That stage where nothing seems to be possible anymore. In hospice, the highest expression of modern medicine of palliative care, the original meaning of the term Care, that of solicitude, is rediscovered, making it possible to “cure” what has been declared no longer so. The logic and affective neutrality of care (in the sense of cure), give way to the empathy and compassion of caring (to care). The disease that in the history of the patient has been until that moment the hostes, the enemy to be defeated, thus becomes the Hospital, the host to welcome in the difficult path to death.