A strange denouement, because I think the journey continues. But it's past life, past mortality, so it's another story entirely. I know what Kate says implies that the woman lived, but I really can't see it as anything but her having died and being able to see the world with detachment, realising what it was that she held most dear within it, and subsequently wanting to tell her loved ones what they meant to her. It's not necessarily sad, because she now better understands what her life was about to some extent.
Either way, whether it's written from the perspective of the dead or the living, the sentiments the same. What has happened to her has allowed her to understand what she values and what she would miss if it were absent.
A strange denouement, because I think the journey continues. But it's past life, past mortality, so it's another story entirely. I know what Kate says implies that the woman lived, but I really can't see it as anything but her having died and being able to see the world with detachment, realising what it was that she held most dear within it, and subsequently wanting to tell her loved ones what they meant to her. It's not necessarily sad, because she now better understands what her life was about to some extent.
Either way, whether it's written from the perspective of the dead or the living, the sentiments the same. What has happened to her has allowed her to understand what she values and what she would miss if it were absent.