There is no one way to approach final moments with a loved one.
Ask Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and you will learn authentic language on dying. Listen to the renowned physician BJ Miller's TED Talk, and you might find out what really matters at the end of life. If you're bookworm, go and find the ones by Sherwin Bernard Nuland or Atul Gawande.
But it was only when I came across a little graphic poetry collection by Wendy MacNaughton today that I began to have deep learning on the way to say goodbye at bedside.
The pencil drawings and painting protrayals of patients at a six-bed hospice facility, accompanied by poems for reflection, from her boook How to Say Goodbye are the best visual storytelling for those of us who live and die.
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