Hence the wish for a "synergic effort to be made by society and by the community of believers", so that "everyone will be able not only to live decorously and responsibly, but also to go through the ordeal and death in the best possible conditions of fraternity and solidarity, even when death occurs in a poor family or on a hospital bed". "No believer should die in loneliness or desertion", warned the Pope, according to whom "the Church, with its existing institutions and new initiatives, is called to offer the testimony of laborious charity, especially in the critical conditions of those people who are not self-sufficient or have no family support, and with the seriously-ill people who need palliative treatments as well as appropriate religious assistance", through "the spiritual mobilisation of the parish and diocesan communities" and "the establishment and qualification of facilities". Society is instead called to offer due support to those families who intend to commit themselves to treat at home, sometimes for a long time, sick people suffering from degenerative diseases (tumours, neurodegenerative diseases, etc.) or needing particularly demanding care" and to support those "specialist health-care institutions that employ many skilled staff and use very expensive equipment".
