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On a serious note, I am really not sure. The whole spend the day with nearest and dearest cementing connections and saying a meaningful goodbye sounds like my idea of hell. All that raw emotion. I suspect it might depend on a few different things. Am I the only one that's aware of the ticking clock, for example? If my family knew, then I would spend that time with them, in just the ways described here.
If they didn't? I would still spend that time with them, but I do not know if I would make them aware of it. 24 hours is not even close to the barest hint of enough time for a mother to come to terms with their child's impending death. 24 hour's notice, or told after the fact, is almost the same degree of shock. Perhaps better to make that time brilliant, without the clock ticking in everyone's ears.
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