What to tell someone who is about to Die?

[ZenSwift]

@integral My mother worked in Hospice. What's most important is just having those end of life conversations. Making sure you make peace with whatever while the opportunity still exists. 

 

 

[RisingLane]

Death Is Waking Up From This Dreamlife -- Philosopher Newport

[Inliytened1]

On 1/8/2026 at 7:23 PM, integral said:

My uncle is about to die, he has spiritual education Deepak level, so for the last few weeks of his life hes going to be contemplating death.

Im going to see him soon and likely go into a conversation about spirituality.

I figured id explain to him that hes already immortal and so on. But im inexperienced with dealling with people who are about to die and id like to be prepared for this talk.

What do you guys recommend?

Just comfort him.   Trying to explain something to him now seems pointless.  He's going to know soon anyway.

Edited Thursday at 07:05 PM by Inliytened1

[blackchair]

Make him laugh, hold him strongly in your arms and drink a last beer for the "voyage" (if he's able for a beer) that's most spiritual thing you could do.....

[cetus]

My cousin and his wife are having their 14 y.o. dog put down today. They have no children so that dog was like a daughter to them. They have someone coming in to take care of the medical end of it. They wanted to be with her in familiar surroundings at the end. -Just a share.

[UnbornTao]

31 minutes ago, cetus said:

My cousin and his wife are having their 14 y.o. dog put down today. They have no children so that dog was like a daughter to them. They have someone coming in to take care of the medical end of it. They wanted to be with her in familiar surroundings at the end. -Just a share.

Ah shit, breaks my heart. Recently saw a video on Reddit of people saying goodbye to their dogs. Broke me in half. My doggy is ten. Time really flies, God.

[CARDOZZO]

1 hour ago, cetus said:

My cousin and his wife are having their 14 y.o. dog put down today. They have no children so that dog was like a daughter to them. They have someone coming in to take care of the medical end of it. They wanted to be with her in familiar surroundings at the end. -Just a share.

Sad to hear it. I had a similar experience last year. We had to do it. Tough decision. This day I saw how love is a spectrum. You love them so much you want them do die to stop the suffering. Damn, so hard.