IMO the best thing you can do is accept you will lose them, and it may be sudden and unexpected, or it may be slow and awful. I’m sorry, it’s just true, and den

IMO the best thing you can do is accept you will lose them, and it may be sudden and unexpected, or it may be slow and awful. I’m sorry, it’s just true, and denial will just make it worse. Given acceptance of that reality, do the stuff you might wish you had done. Visit more, talk more, listen more. If they’re comfortable with mortality (older people are often moreso than younger), don’t avoid the topic. If they’re not, well, maybe there are small things you can do to help both you and them to accept. It’s such a difficult thing, but it’s pretty much mandatory. Acceptance can reduce anxiety.