Between personal report and fiction, philosophical reflection and the reading of literary key texts, the author tells the story of a life’s end and mourning. How does dying challenge us, and how can we confront it through the arts? What form does a work of words and images take when it is marked by farewell? Analysis, essays, and thought images of poetic density intertwine to create a narrative theory that entangles the reader in a personal confrontation with death in life and allows participation in the search for appropriate ways to cope. The current societal debate about better support for people approaching the boundary where life ceases should not be reduced to a medical-ethical discussion about assisted dying: it demands an aesthetics of farewell.