This article explores the grief experienced by the spouse of a terminal cancer patient and clarifies the implication of grief. In hospice and palliative care field, the beloved spouse of the patient would experience obvious and strong grief when facing the potential death and loss of the relationship. Grief has particular emotional meanings in different contexts or ways of expressing. For some individuals, grief can be a kind of coping and has preparatory and protective effects. By presenting the case of the spouse of a terminal cancer patient who accepted the hospice and palliative care, we explored the grief that the spouse expressed and its related context, and attempted to understand the adaptive role of grief.