Deborah collapsed after the death of Rayen (15) and ended up in psychiatry for ten months: “He said: ‘Mom, it can stop now’”

“My child, in a cemetery, in all weather conditions: I couldn’t bear that idea.” When you think of mourning, you often think of a cemetery, but Deborah Olie made a different choice. She keeps his ashes at home, exactly on the spot where her son Rayen (15) died. She tells our journalist how her life fell apart when the word ‘pediatric oncologist’ was mentioned for the first time and how every place in her house still exudes Rayen.

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