This is incredibly moving and profound. Everyone in the world should read what you have to say

Here is what I said to my distressed, dying child, as lovingly and reassuringly as possible: “You will not be alone. You will not feel pain. We will be okay.” He needed each of these phrases more than “I love you.”

Three Magical Phrases to Comfort a Dying Person

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Deborah Barchi

1 min readMar 2, 2020

This is incredibly moving and profound. Everyone in the world should read what you have to say.

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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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