ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experiences through both written notes and memories of this time, while conducting dissertation research in a small rural Konkomba village in Northern Region, Ghana. The research emphasizes on intergenerational relationships with respect to everyday practices making up livelihoods. The chapter describes about Nyaa Uchain, who was a tiny, quiet woman with a gentle way about her. To handle someone is therefore to participate in the life of another. Although care is part of everyday life with responsibilities embedded within particular intergenerational relationships, intense moments of dependency such as end-of-life illness are moments of intimacy that offer insight into the depths of interpersonal connection. In relationships of care, one may recognize suffering and work to acknowledge and attend to the needs of another. Understanding how people support each other in life is inextricable from how people support each other at the end of life and how death can be incorporated into the lives that continue on.
