Not to come to die realizing that we have never lived.
Last winter, when there was fighting in Yabrud, across the mountain, and people were dying, she realized her country was at war.
The producers also debated the idea of other characters dying, but realized that none would have as much resonance as one of Clark's parents.
No one had died, Ghaith realized with relief.
When Cicero's mother is dying, he realizes she "in fact had a language of her own, had, even, appetites.
— these comedy scenes are astonishing, but they're hardly funny, because viewers know that the actors risked dying to realize them.
"Once he died, I realized that we had a pretty strong bond that I didn't understand or even knew existed," he said.
"When my mother died, I realized that a certain degree of my ability to take pleasure in my own accomplishments was gone," Kushner says.
Furthermore, after having spent his life in pursuit of the infinities, the dying Godley realizes that he has hopelessly bungled the finite — his two marriages and his relationships with his children.
His father also left a trove of memorabilia — including 80-year-old handwritten sheet music — which he tenderly curates to pass on to his children, Ruby, 7, and Quincy, 5. "When my father died, I realized I had a museum on my hands," he said.
