Michelle Obama shares powerful life lesson her dying mother taught her

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00:00She was realizing that, you know, she might, she will not ever be the same old self that she was.

00:07She was starting to realize she's coming to the end.

00:12And this woman that prepared me for death, right, and talked to me about all this stuff and was like,

00:18I'm ready to die.

00:19Who needs to be old people around too long?

00:22Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:24She leaned over to me and she said, wow, this went fast.

00:28And I held her hand.

00:31I said, what are you talking about?

00:33And she said, life.

00:34She said, this went fast.

00:37And this was the woman who was ready.

00:40And what that told me was that even when you tell yourself you're ready, if you're living a good life,

00:46you're never really ready for it to end.