Due to the increasing need for palliative care requires much more than passive care to ensure a pleasant death. Today, palliative care strives to help patients live well until his death. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients. Also, palliative care is holistic directed not only to patients but also to his family / loved ones, and carried out by a multidisciplinary team in which there are volunteers. Volunteers play an important role because they contribute to the quality of palliative care. The aim of this paper is to check the awareness of people about volunteering, palliative care and their relationship. Testing was conducted on a sample of 208 subjects in the Međimurje and Varaždin, of which 85.6% female and 14.4% of men. Most subjects in the age between 18 and 30 years (73.2%). The study was conducted by a questionnaire. An analysis of the meaning of volunteering, the view on the contribution of volunteering, why volunteer or not to volunteer, knowledge of palliative care and the role of volunteers in palliative care and to help participants enhance volunteering. The results show that they are acquainted with the concepts of volunteering, palliative care, palliative patient and the role of volunteers. Volunteering is considered a human activity that contributes to the personal satisfaction of volunteers, developing self-esteem, acquire knowledge and skills and meeting new and interesting people. Also it is believed that people are passive and have no ambition for volunteering, but the respondents are familiar with the places where you can volunteer. A palliative patient care and the majority of respondents expressed a very good knowledge, which is a positive indicator of familiarity of respondents. Positively evaluated the volunteers in palliative care and the respondents know that the tasks of volunteers. The results show that the promotion of volunteering as possible with more media attention and higher education population.