Maranasati, or death contemplation practice, had a very different conceptual and distant form in Ashvin Sangoram’s head as he began in earnest as a Buddhist meditator twenty-some years ago. Physician Ashvin Sangoram describes how maranasati seemed to be something esoteric and almost fearfully unnecessary. When his parents died four days apart in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice became so immersive and real that he began to experience more deeply what a true shift in consciousness death (in many forms) represents. The story of his parents’ passing and his struggle with aspects of their dying provide a window into the deep and beautiful work of conscious embodied awareness and of letting go. The physician, whose day job consists of saving humans at the beginning of life and finally witnessing the end of his parents’ lives, hopes to engage the reader on a journey that is inevitable for each of us. Whether they choose it or not, death will come for them as for all of us, and it is perhaps in full awareness of this truth that freedom might be found.