And that was kind of when the reality hit that something is not working, something is not going right.

He didn't look like my brother. He looked 30 years older than what he actually was.

So that's kind of when we kind of realized like, okay, something's going on.

Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanagato. I'm Greg Dybeck.

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Today we're speaking to a woman who reached out to us about what it's like to lose a sibling

and be there for a sibling's sort of end of life period.

And to be honest, I think this is a conversation, Joe and I, for selfish reasons,

have probably avoided for a little while. I think it's obviously something very difficult to talk about.

We both have siblings ourselves, but we also feel that it's really important because this is not

a unique situation to be in for people who have family members, friends that may have a terminal

illness or to be there to kind of help guide and support them through their end of life period.

So we've got our guests on the line and thank you for being here today.

Thank you for having me. Appreciate it.

Yeah, so can you, I guess, just tell us who your sibling was that we're going to be speaking about today

and just kind of paint the picture, I guess, of just sort of date range ages?

Absolutely. So it was my older brother, Brandon, we're one of five siblings. I have two half sisters

and one older sister, I'm the youngest, so he was smack in the middle of all of us.

He was 28 kind of at the start of everything and then he was 29 at the time of death.

So kind of just at that age, getting everything together in life, so kind of sorted out and figured out.

And how long ago did this happen?

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