Resumo: O luto e um processo lento e doloroso que ocorre de forma consciente, e considerado um processo natural na elaboracao da perda, o enlutado deve passar pelas fases de negacao, raiva, barganha, depressao e aceitacao, em um periodo de um a dois anos. O luto antecipatorio e um conceito desenvolvido por Erich Lindemann em 1944, quando observava as familias dos soldados que iam para as guerras, pois elas entravam em processo de luto mesmo sem a morte do familiar confirmada. As fases vivenciadas nesse processo assemelham-se as do luto normal, mas acontecem com a pessoa ainda viva e com diagnostico de morte eminente. O tempo prolongado para a finitude e um dos principais inimigos, pois vai debilitando a resistencia dos envolvidos. Assim a familia do paciente deve ser levada devidamente em conta garantindo ajuda eficaz ao paciente. A familia que acompanha um ente querido sofre tanto quanto o paciente, pois ve-lo se degenerando e nao pode ajudar, causando um sentimento de impotencia e culpa. O psicologo deve ouvir, e interpretar a fala desse familiar com maos livres de instrumentos e observar seus sinais e sintomas e preparar esse familiar para a morte efetiva para que nao resulte em um luto patologico. A equipe de saude, principalmente o psicologo, deve oferecer apoio e o nao abandono. Este estudo bibliografico, de abordagem qualitativa exploratoria, teve como objetivo compreender qual a importância do psicologo em casos de morte anunciada nos pacientes, familiares, e equipe ajudando a elaborar os sentimentos decorrentes da situacao limite. Palavras-chave: Luto. Luto antecipatorio. Cuidados psicologicos. Importância das intervencoes. ANTICIPATED GRIEF: Psychological cautions with family members towards anounced death Abstract : Griefing is a slow and painful process that happens consciously, it is considered a natural process in coping with loss, the griefing person must overcome the phases of denial, anger, bargain, depression and acceptance, in a period from one to two years. Anticipated grief is a concept developed by Erich Lindemann in 1944, while observing family and relatives of soldiers going to war, as they entered a griefing process even before the relative’s death was confirmed. The phases regular grief, but they happen with the grieved person still alive after the diagnosis of imminent death. Thus, the family of the patient must be properly taken care to assure the patient useful assistance. The family that caters for a loved one suffers as much as the patient, as watching the withering of their lives without being able to help, causing feelings of guilty and powerlessness. The psychologist must listen and translate the speech of such family member hands free of instruments, observing their signals and symptoms, while preparing them for the actual death of their loved one, in order to avoid a case of pathological griefing. The health and care team, mainly the psychologist, must offer support, not giving up on the patient and their family. This bibliographical study, with an explorative qualitative approach, had as an objective understand the role of the psychologist in cases of announced death of a patient, family members and the health and care team, helping to cope with the feelings stemming from the limit event. Keywords: Grief. Anticipated grief. Psychological caress. Role of interventions.