About the Author

Hadley Vlahos, RN, is a hospice registered nurse, mother and wife. Vlahos started her career as a registered nurse at twenty-two. As a hospice nurse, she now visits people at their home while also educating and sharing stories about hospice care on social media, where she has more than a million followers.

Reviews

Gentle, refreshingly forthright ... helps readers wrap their minds around - and perhaps make peace with - the great unknown
*New York Times*

Extraordinary ... helps dispel fear around dying - revealing it to be a natural part of our soul's evolution
*Laura Lynne Jackson, author of 'The Signs'*

Tender and transformative
*Christie Tate, author of 'Group'*

Gentle encouragement for all those who live under life's running clock and for those who love them
*Kirkus Reviews*

Vlahos's compassionate, beautifully written book contains profound wisdom
*Katy Butler, author of 'The Art of Dying Well'*

The combined beauty, faith, and compassion found in each patient's death is meaningful and sublime
*Theresa Brown, author of 'The Shift'*

Here's what you need to know about Vlahos's memoir: It's heartfelt without being woo-woo, and it's not as sad as you'd expect it to be. Vlahos walks readers through her time caring for 11 patients (names, identifying details and medical information have been changed) and her mother-in-law, who died in 2018. Her tone is gentle, refreshingly forthright and befitting of a professional who tells us what to expect from an event that has launched a thousand euphemisms.
*The New York Times*