Mirror 59 · Time
The Last Time
“You will not know it is the last time until it is too late. The last hug, the last conversation, the last time you pick up your child and feel their full weight in your arms — these moments are indistinguishable from all the others. And that is the tragedy. You live them as though there will always be another.”
The hospice sat on a quiet street in Dún Laoghaire, a coastal town south of Dublin. It was a modern building, designed to be as unlike a hospital as possible — warm wood, soft lighting, windows that faced the sea. People came here to die, but the staff did not use that language. They said "end-of-li...
Reflection question
What would change in your life if you truly believed this?