Sad to hear. She gave one of the most precious gifts one human can bestow upon another - her time, her attention and her compassion.

This is a lesson that many of us take for granted, we only have a finite amount of time allotted to us. How we chose to use that time, is our decision to make. We will never know what opportunity we missed, until it's too late. Choose wisely, and if we are lucky, we can leave the world a little better than we found it, which was the route that Undine53 chose.