The importance of love in the healing process, even at the end of life, is a complex notion that nurses need not trivialize. Love lets family members appear to be who they are as we work together to soften illness suffering. Specific clinical practices encourage family members and ourselves to choose love at the end of one’s life. Clinical practices that bring forth love include challenging constraining illness beliefs; speaking the unspeakable; and small acts of kindness. Clinical examples will highlight the practices that bring forth love.  Sometimes other disciplines can misunderstand our clinical practices and negate compassion and love.