‘It can be really frightening’: knowing the common signs that a loved one is dying can help in their final days | Lydia Hales
Death is confronting, heartbreaking and unpredictable – information and open discussions can make a difficult experience more meaningful
My mum died on a summer’s morning.
When I walked out of the hospital, where I had spent the last several days and nights curled on a small couch next to her bed, I felt like a stray root of some ancient tree that had accidentally broken out of the earth and into foreign air – wholly unprepared for the strange world I now found myself in.
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