I will discuss the seaman’s right to recover cure and when the vessel owner’s obligation to provide cure stops. In particular, I will propose that if the seaman’s injury or illness was caused by the seaman’s service of the ship that the obligation to provide cure should include, consistent with modern medical theory, palliative care or care designed to curb degeneration of the seaman’s condition. Alternatively, if the seaman’s condition was not caused by the seaman’s service of the ship but merely manifested itself during the service of the ship, I will argue that the obligation to provide cure should cease when that causation determination is made but in no even before the seaman has received initial medical treatment and is back home.