Davina McCall emphasizes the importance of using the remaining time with terminally ill loved ones to build closeness and share love instead of waiting until it is too late.

“If anybody's listening and they feel like they've got a relative that they want to get into or get do it now don't wait for someone to die because the best seven weeks of my life with my sister were those last seven weeks of hers”

Grief is a motivational state of yearning and desire for someone or something that is no longer accessible, rather than merely a state of sadness.

“Rather, perhaps the best way to think about grief is that it is actually a motivational state. It is a yearning. It is a desire for something, and somewhat surprisingly, it's not just a desire to have that person back, or to have that animal back.”