The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of transaction between patients under palliative care and physical environment in PCU. We select a literary writings, patient's family set down her experiences in a PCU as a record in, entitled "When it is fragrant with the smell of a fragrant olive", and we distinguish the PCU in the writings for case study. Through the analysis of changes of patient's condition over time lapses and locales in the literary writings, we confirm the features of the transaction.