No one lives forever. Happy is the one who can share their final years with a loved one. Stefan Schütz powerfully, poetically, and not without a sense of humor recounts this last time that many are forced to spend alone. He tells stories from the nursing home he visits daily, about the elderly man and woman, about the everyday realities of frailty and dementia. He allows us to be companions on the final stretch of the journey and creates with "Our Life" a virtuoso and deeply moving book about aging and connection: a hymn of immense poetic force to the love that transcends death. But it is also an account of the present and the world, seen through the tender yet disillusioned gaze of someone saying goodbye. A timeless book about our time and one of its most pressing yet taboo subjects.