In last month’s editorial, we spoke about supporting people through the death of a child or a loved one. We said that those who have experienced grief often discover that love grows and expands through giving, and that sometimes it finds new places in which to express itself: helping other families, accompanying someone who is just beginning the same journey, creating projects, تبادل الخبرات, or simply being there for another person who is suffering. It can also find expression through a deeper exploration of one’s inner world.
Perhaps this is one of the most profound forms of human growth: allowing love to become greater than our own loss.
We can only accompany them along that path. Listen. Be present. Share our testimony. Respect their timing and their silences. And remind them, when necessary, that they do not have to walk it alone.
But our work of accompaniment also extends to another profoundly transformative reality: supporting people who have had a near-death experience (تجربة الاقتراب من الموت).
Those who return from such an experience may do so with a different perception of life, موت, and themselves. Yet they do not always find an environment prepared to listen to what they have experienced. Some remain silent for years out of fear that they will not be understood.
That is why we are deeply proud to accompany them as well. To offer spaces where they can speak without being judged and where they can integrate an experience that, في كثير من الحالات, has radically changed the way they understand existence.
And today, we are also proud to share that this project is now present in 20 المستشفيات.
Saying this is not intended as an exercise in arrogance. Quite the opposite. Above all, it is a reason for gratitude.
Gratitude to each and every professional who is making this journey possible. Psychologists, physicians, researchers, therapists, and collaborators who, from different disciplines, are gradually building a human and professional network committed to providing support and to studying one of the great mysteries still before us: الوعي.
Science advances because someone dares to ask questions. Questions that sometimes do not yield immediate answers, but that open paths for those who will come after us.
هذا هو السبب, when I look at the network of professionals we are bringing together, what I feel above all is gratitude and hope for a better world.
I hope these teams continue to grow and outlive us. That they continue researching when we are no longer here. That they keep asking new questions and contributing knowledge, rigor, and awareness through science.
Because perhaps our true legacy lies not only in what we are able to accomplish today, but also in the professional and personal bonds that will carry this work forward tomorrow.
To all the professionals who accompany those going through grief, to those who listen to accounts of near-death experiences, to those who conduct research and dare to ask difficult questions: thank you.
Victor Hugo continued bringing flowers to Léopoldine.
Perhaps we, each in our own way, can continue bringing flowers too.
Flowers that sometimes take the form of a listening ear, a research endeavor, an outstretched hand, or simply being present when someone is passing through the darkness.
Because we cannot prevent every loss or erase pain. But we can help ensure that no one has to walk through the darkness completely alone.
And perhaps, when we accompany someone as they find a little light again, we too learn how to see it.
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