Much of the work preparing for dying begins earlier in life, and significant insights are gained in the days, weeks, months, and years preceding death, not just in the final moments.

“So the idea that I think for your audience to imagine deathbed scenes that in the final moments there's this great epiphany or climax of some sort can happen, but that's really not the norm. A lot of the action is in the days, weeks, months, years preceding the death moment.”