"As a palliative care and hospice physician, Dr. Bob Lehmberg's experience with mortality was primarily professional. For his wife, Jennifer O'Brien, the early deaths of her brother and mother made her understanding of death and loss personal. Although neither was a stranger to death, when metastatic cancer was found throughout Bob's body, the couple was plunged into the receiving end of palliative care and end-of-life preparations. Even with their combined knowledge, it was enormously challenging to navigate treatments, side effects, decisions, communication, emotions, remaining time, end-of-life preferences, their final goodbye, and Jennifer's survivorship. Jennifer began journaling and creating collages and tableaus during her husband's illness as a form of self-care. Her book was born of this work, and is intended to offer guidance and peace for others caring for someone with a life-limiting condition"--