What does it mean to truly show up when someone you love has died? Not to observe from a distance, not to hand everything off to strangers — but to stay close, use your hands, and do something rather than have something done.

In this episode, three stories. A man who handed a death doula a list of names and died four days later, trusting that his people would figure it out. A family who drove through the Montana night with their father, racing a clock, doing the last thing they could do for him. And two daughters who discovered, somewhere around midnight, that they were braver than they knew.

Underneath, they are the same story. About presence over passivity. About love made tangible.

This episode opens with Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott. The stanzas used:

It was the closing of the day: S ...