DTH-XI-0004
“Someone I love is dying and I don't know what to do.”
There is no script for this. The not-knowing is real. What you can do is show up fully — not with answers, but with presence. Often the only thing that matters to someone dying is that the people they love are actually there, not performing comfort but genuinely present.
Your Practice
You don't need to do anything extraordinary. Decide what kind of presence you want to be for this person right now — not for yourself, but for them. Then do that one thing today: visit, call, write, sit with them. You won't regret showing up. You may regret not doing so.
The Architects
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus, Discourses, Book III