If you're reading this, you may be dwelling in that strange in-between space where someone you love is still here, but you can already feel the shape of their absence. You're holding two truths at once: “we’re together today” and “we’re losing each other.” It’s called anticipatory grief… it’s exhausting.

When someone you love dies, the world tilts on its axis. Suddenly you're thrust into a landscape of funeral directors and impossible decisions, trying to navigate grief while figuring out how to say goodbye to someone who meant so much to you.

In the quiet space between life and death, I had the profound honour of sitting beside Olivia, an extraordinary woman in her early 80s, during her final days.