Enactments of palliative care entail an excess of dissociated pain and anxiety that conforms with the unconscious injunction of our liberal individualist society to “Be Well”. In this paper, I suggest that palliative care rituals serve as society-level unconscious defenses that Westerners use to ward off any form of emotional discomfort. This paper follows a patient, starting with a “zombie” dream presented in her initial session, through the first 6 years of her psychoanalytic treatment as she moves through this palliative care system.