Listen to this when
Doing the Right Thing
Grieving someone still here 🧠
Who it's for
Elena Tonra wrote this about her grandmother's dementia, voicing the confusion of memory loss and the pain of the family watching.
Heartbroken→Held in grief
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Doing the Right Thing" is a song by the British band Daughter from their 2016 album Not to Disappear, released as a promotional single in September 2015. It looks at aging and the slow mental decline of an elderly narrator who does not realise it is happening; lyricist Elena Tonra first meant it as a tribute to her grandmother's cognitive decline.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: Themes of dementia and mortality.
Age: All ages
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter LXXII
