Anna Byrne
January 27th, 2026
Death has been Anna Byrne’s most exacting teacher, shaping a life devoted to tenderness, community and end-of-life care. In Last Caravan (Caitlin $26), a memoir rooted in lived experience and spiritual inquiry, Byrne chronicles how she and two friends accompanied her close friend, Mary Morgan, through a home death with Medical Assistance in Dying, transforming loss into a communal act of care, ritual and beauty. Drawing on her background in gerontology, psychology, theology, hospice work and her own cancer diagnosis at 32, Byrne argues for a return to community-led deathcare—one grounded in presence rather than urgency. She is also the author of Seven Year Summer (self-published, 2019), a Whistler Independent Book Awards finalist used in hospice training, and lives in qathet, BC, where she coordinates hospice services. Byrne also co-founded Community-Supported Dying qathet. 9781773861821
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