Modern death in rich societies is sometimes a kind of disease in that medicine instead of prolonging life prolongs death

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She explains in plain language the feelings of dying patients: “dying is different for everyone. There´s no textbook”; “pain seems to dissipate in the very last few hours, and, for most people, those hours are peaceful”; “in the last two weeks of her life, my mother was ready and eager to die”; “I´ve also tried to convey some sense of the beauty and joy that often surround dying -the sense of meaning it can give to the dying person and people around her.”

https://commissiononthevalueofdeath.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/we-all-need-an-internal-debate-about-death-and-dying-and-our-own-deaths

Once things settled down slightly with his health, it was time for me to seriously try and deal with the impact everything that had happened had had on myself

I’m not going to sugar coat it, it’s been hard. Really fucking hard! I’ve said several times, I wish I could have read someone else’s experiences to let me know that I wasn’t alone in what I was thinking, feeling, crying about, obsessing over, and it was all part of the process and perfectly normal.

https://copingwithmypartnersheartattack.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/example-post-3