One of the most excruciating, heartbreaking, and traumatic things you can go through in life is to be at the bedside of a dying loved one. It's also one of the most important things you'll do, and one of the most profound ways of showing love, too. None of us wants to leave this world alone, and we don't want that for the ones we love, either.
As a new study out of the University of British Columbia shows, those last precious moments mean even more than we might have realized.