Palliative medicine and hospice work have developed in many ways over the past few years. This has also led to dying, death and mourning being perceived and discussed more intensively in society. When meeting and accompanying seriously ill and dying people, including those around them, topics such as pain, physical symptoms, psychosocial problems, experiences of suffering, parting, death and grief are omnipresent. One of the main tasks of those working in the palliative and hospice sectors is dealing with grief. The manual explains the possibilities and limits of grief encounters and grief counseling and provides answers to numerous questions about the phenomenon of grief.In addition to imparting basic theoretical knowledge to understand grief, practical ways and strategies for dealing with grief are shown as well as questions of guilt, despair, search for meaning and longing that arise again and again.