My mentor who is like a father to me has been given six months to live and I realize I never told him how much he means to me and now it feels too late to say it without sounding desperate.
More people experience this than they realize.
Approaching death makes every unspoken truth feel urgent and every expression of love feel simultaneously essential and inadequate.
“Where Are You with Anticipatory grief — losing someone before they die?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.