Choosing to Die:A Daughter, a Garden, and What It Really Means to Show Up at the End |Theresa Evans
She spent her career as an ICU nurse standing beside strangers in their final moments. And then the person in that bed was her mother.
Theresa Evans is the author of Choosing to Die — a deeply compassionate memoir about supporting her mother through medical assistance in dying. For three months she tended her mother's garden while navigating anticipatory grief, and that garden became the most powerful metaphor for everything they were all living through.
In this episode of Beyond the Draft, Theresa shares what anticipatory grief actually feels like, what a good death looks like, and what she…
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