“You have to get your sister away as soon as possible. Here she will die. We can’t help her,” the doctor whispered in my brother Allan’s ear. I didn’t hear it myself; I had slipped into a coma. In a good way, because I don’t know if I could have handled the announcement. It was the summer of 2018 and I was 38 years old. We were in Cape Verde to celebrate Allan’s wedding, not to say goodbye for good. How could death suddenly come for me?