Stacy's Story: The Legacy of a Very Short Life (part 3)

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In the final episode of this three part series, Stacy Dain reflects on the life that has unfolded since the death of her daughter Cassidy, and the ways grief has shaped how she shows up for other people.

After Cassidy died, Stacy created Cassidy’s Club, providing practical items to help families spending difficult days in the hospital. Years later, after being diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at 45, that same instinct to give became a way to support people receiving cancer treatment.

Stacy and Bruce also talk about survival, the exhaustion of wondering how much one family can endure, and the empathy that can come from having lived through devastating loss.

Stacy shares a powerful story from her work as a flight attendant, when a critically ill child and his family were aboard her flight. Her own experience as a bereaved mother helped her recognize what that family, and especially the child’s sister, might need in a moment when their lives were changing forever.

The conversation ultimately returns to Caitlin and Cassidy, Samuel and the heart he carries, and the legacy one little girl created in a life that lasted only days.

For Stacy, that legacy has become a way of living, love people while they are here, help when you can, and even when life gives you every reason to stop, don’t give up.