If you know someone who is dying and you want to offer what encouragement you can (and it can be very awkward to do so), read this book, Final Gifts.

FORBES: Final Gifts

The world is different when it's the people you know, and I do not think we will be able to resist the forces of change when our friends are dying on screen, in front of us, and we know that we could do something but have decided not to.

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