When loved ones are in physical or emotional pain, when their world no longer makes sense, your simple listening can do wonders.
- Cry with them.
- Be silent with them.
- Confirm your feelings, no matter how painful they are.
- Help them become recognized in this world.
- Don't offer smart answers now. Offer yourself.
- Do not preach or teach.
- Do not judge and do not make them think about their thoughts "wrongly".

Embrace. So that they don't feel alone. So that they can touch their courage. To your ability to withstand strong feelings.

When one is in physical or emotional pain, when their world no longer makes sense, offer them the greatest medicine of all:
Your love.