In terminal medicine, spiritual care is recognized as needed care for anyone who suffers from anxiety and despair. Spiritual care can be provided even to non-religious persons, because it is provided to care for the soul of a patient, and not necessarily by a particular religion. Religious care is meant to help patients with particular religious resources, such as theological, cultural, and/or denominational perspectives. But religious care has positive contributions as well as negative influences. Religious care will not be welcomed by non-religious persons and anti-religious persons. Today religious care is not permitted in public hospitals by law, so spiritual care is taking on the role of caring for the souls of dying patients. Spiritual care works to help one care for herself or himself without religious resources. Religion has a spiritual heritage that is helpful for terminal patients to see oneself from a transcendant and ultimate perspective.