Reuters photographer Gaia Squarci recalls spending the last months of her grandmother's life with her in Italy: "My grandmother's life and mine overlapped for 27 years. I always called her "Nonna." Our age difference and profoundly contrasting values and way of thinking did not prevent us from developing a strong bond andÊ a relationship punctuated by mischievous games and moments of tenderness and humour. "You know, I was still young when you were born," she told me a few weeks before she died. "It's a little like we grew up together." At a lunch table a few months earlier in Milan, I learned from my mother, her daughter, that Nonna, 85, suffered from incurable liver cancer. Years before, she had already survived two bouts of breast cancer. Nonna would tell me time and time again that the news of my birth had given her the strength to fight. Even more heartbreaking than the fear of saying goodbye to her was the fact that my grandmother did not know how sick she was. My mother and aunt believed she could not bear the thought of a third bout with cancer. Because of this, one question haunted us until the day she died: Did we have theÊright to know the truth about her condition when she did not? Nonna spent most of her last months at home, surrounded by family. She reconciled with the idea of death and said she could slowly feelÊit coming. Doctors felt that surgery and chemotherapy would be pointless. On Oct. 11, 2015, the day Nonna died in Biella, Italy, I was across the world in Brooklyn, New York. I had spent five months with her, celebrating her life instead of mourningÊher death. I struggled with the concept of death and the abstract emotion we call grief. I found peace only when I returned to Italy to spread Nonna's ashes. REUTERS/Gaia Squarci SEARCH "ITALY CANCER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Women wait for sterilization surgery at a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "STERILIZATION CHILD" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Women wait for sterilization surgery a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "STERILIZATION CHILD" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Cycling - Tour de France cycling race - The 162.5 km (101 miles) Stage 7 from L'Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle, France - 08/07/2016 - An International Cycling Union (UCI) official uses a magnetic tablet device to detect motors during an inspection of bicyles from Fortuneo - Vital Concept before the start. The UCI also uses thermal cameras to prevent mechanical doping during the Tour de France. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

Cycling - Tour de France cycling race - The 162.5 km (101 miles) Stage 7 from L'Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle, France - 08/07/2016 - An International Cycling Union (UCI) official uses a magnetic tablet device to detect motors during an inspection of bicyles from Fortuneo - Vital Concept before the start. The UCI also uses thermal cameras to prevent mechanical doping during the Tour de France. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

Cycling - Tour de France cycling race - The 162.5 km (101 miles) Stage 7 from L'Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle, France - 08/07/2016 - An International Cycling Union (UCI) official uses a magnetic tablet device to detect motors during an inspection of a Fortuneo - Vital Concept before the start. The UCI also uses thermal cameras to prevent mechanical doping during the Tour de France. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

Preparations are well under way for next week's Mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

A worker puts a fresh coat of paint on the curb in preparation for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

A worker puts a fresh coat of paint on the curb in preparation for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Workers high upon scaffolding construct a riser in preparation for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Workers high upon scaffolding construct a riser in preparation for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Workers high upon scaffolding construct a riser in preparation for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Workers are busy with construction at the site for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Workers are busy with construction of the event site for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Construction workers prepare the site of next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Construction workers prepare for next week's mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

A worker helps with preparations for next week's Mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Workers construct a riser in preparation for next week's Mass by Pope Francis at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Women, who underwent sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation camp, pose for pictures inside a hospital at Bilaspur district in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh November 14, 2014. The doctor whose sterilisation of 83 women in less than three hours ended in at least a dozen deaths said on Thursday the express operations were his moral responsibility and blamed adulterated medicines for the tragedy. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH CRIME LAW SOCIETY) 

Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon gestures during an interview with Reuters in Madrid February 17, 2014. Spain's most famous human rights investigator Garzon has accused his country of seeking to curb judges' powers to pursue rights abusers around the world in order to avoid diplomatic tension and damage to trade ties. Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes such as genocide and torture are so serious they can be prosecuted across borders. Using this principle, Spain detained Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. But Spain's ruling party, which can push through laws easily thanks to an absolute majority, has sent a bill to parliament aimed at preventing judges from investigating cases unless the suspects are Spaniards or resident in Spain. To match Interview SPAIN-GARZON/ Picture taken February 17, 2014. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS PROFILE HEADSHOT) 

Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon gestures during an interview with Reuters in Madrid February 17, 2014. Spain's most famous human rights investigator Garzon has accused his country of seeking to curb judges' powers to pursue rights abusers around the world in order to avoid diplomatic tension and damage to trade ties. Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes such as genocide and torture are so serious they can be prosecuted across borders. Using this principle, Spain detained Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. But Spain's ruling party, which can push through laws easily thanks to an absolute majority, has sent a bill to parliament aimed at preventing judges from investigating cases unless the suspects are Spaniards or resident in Spain. To match Interview SPAIN-GARZON/ Picture taken February 17, 2014. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS PROFILE) 

Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon poses for a portrait after an interview with Reuters in Madrid February 17, 2014. Spain's most famous human rights investigator Garzon has accused his country of seeking to curb judges' powers to pursue rights abusers around the world in order to avoid diplomatic tension and damage to trade ties. Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes such as genocide and torture are so serious they can be prosecuted across borders. Using this principle, Spain detained Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. But Spain's ruling party, which can push through laws easily thanks to an absolute majority, has sent a bill to parliament aimed at preventing judges from investigating cases unless the suspects are Spaniards or resident in Spain. To match Interview SPAIN-GARZON/ Picture taken February 17, 2014. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS PROFILE) 

Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon gestures during an interview with Reuters in Madrid February 17, 2014. Spain's most famous human rights investigator Garzon has accused his country of seeking to curb judges' powers to pursue rights abusers around the world in order to avoid diplomatic tension and damage to trade ties. Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes such as genocide and torture are so serious they can be prosecuted across borders. Using this principle, Spain detained Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. But Spain's ruling party, which can push through laws easily thanks to an absolute majority, has sent a bill to parliament aimed at preventing judges from investigating cases unless the suspects are Spaniards or resident in Spain. To match Interview SPAIN-GARZON/ Picture taken February 17, 2014. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS PROFILE) 

Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon poses for a portrait after an interview with Reuters in Madrid February 17, 2014. Spain's most famous human rights investigator Garzon has accused his country of seeking to curb judges' powers to pursue rights abusers around the world in order to avoid diplomatic tension and damage to trade ties. Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes such as genocide and torture are so serious they can be prosecuted across borders. Using this principle, Spain detained Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. But Spain's ruling party, which can push through laws easily thanks to an absolute majority, has sent a bill to parliament aimed at preventing judges from investigating cases unless the suspects are Spaniards or resident in Spain. To match Interview SPAIN-GARZON/ Picture taken February 17, 2014. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS PROFILE) 

Gynaecologist Nayana Patel, carries out an ultrasound examination on Renuka, 23, a surrogate mother, at the Akanksha IVF centre in Anand town, about 70 km (44 miles) south of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad August 24, 2013. India is a leading centre for surrogate motherhood, partly due to Hinduism's acceptance of the concept. The world's second test tube baby was born in Kolkata only two months after Louise Brown in 1978. Rising demand from abroad for Indian surrogate mothers has turned "surrogacy tourism" there into a billion dollar industry, according to a report by the Law Commission of India. Picture taken August 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY)

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A Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive box is seen in New York, April 5, 2013. A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH) 

An illustration picture shows a woman holding a birth control pill at her home in Nice January 3, 2013. French health regulators are studying limiting the use of contraceptive pills that carry health risks and will stop reimbursing prescription costs of some types from March, after a woman sued drugmaker Bayer over alleged side-effects. An inquiry launched this week by the ANSM health regulator will review prescription practices by doctors, whom it says may be over-prescribing higher-risk third and fourth-generation pills. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE - Tags: HEALTH) 

A health worker inserts a contraceptive implant into an housewife's arm during a Family Planning fair conducted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Tondo, Manila July 11, 2012. Pitting himself against the teachings of the country's powerful Catholic church, Philippine President Benigno Aquino, a Catholic like 80 percent of the population, has thrown his support behind a reproductive health bill that will, if passed, guarantee access to free birth control and promote sex education. Picture taken July 11, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY POVERTY)

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A midwife teaches post-partum mothers the use of Cycle Beads for the Standard Days family planning method at Jose Fabella maternity hospital in Manila September 12, 2012. The Standard Days Method is a fertility awareness based family planning method that identifies a fixed fertile window for women. Pitting himself against the teachings of the country's powerful Catholic church, Philippine President Benigno Aquino, a Catholic like 80 percent of the population, has thrown his support behind a reproductive health bill that will, if passed, guarantee access to free birth control and promote sex education. Picture taken September 12, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY POVERTY)

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Drugstore vendors display contraceptive pills and condoms they are selling in a slum community of Baseco, in Tondo, Manila September 30, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY POVERTY) 

A doctor talks to a man availing a free Vasectomy operation during a Family Planning fair conducted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Tondo, Manila July 11, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY POVERTY) 

An NGO health worker holds contraceptive pills during a family planning session with housewives availing free pills in Tondo, Manila August 6, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY POVERTY) 

Pregnant women look at standard days method birth control beads during a family planning session at Fabella government maternity hospital in Manila August 6, 2012. Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Monday successfully threw his weight behind a health bill promoting state-funded contraception, stepping out of his late mother Corazon's shadow as he pushes reforms widely opposed by the Roman Catholic Church. The bill, as it stands, requires governments down to the village level to provide free or low-cost reproductive health services. The law will not promote abortion, which is illegal. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY HEALTH) 

A doctor inserts a contraceptive implant into an housewife's arm as part of Family Planning services in Manila's poor residential district of Baseco July 11, 2012. The Family Planning Fair, which is a part of the United Nations' celebration of World Population day in Manila, offered more than 1,000 community members free contraceptives, tubal ligation, vasectomy and implants, a statement from "Likhaan", a non-governmental organization said. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A woman walks backstage before the Concept Korea Fall/Winter 2012 presentation during New York Fashion Week February 10, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: FASHION) 

Anna Chuvashova (L) and Andrey Burlo, workers from "APB BirdLife Belarus", prepare equipment for measurements of carbon dioxide gas in a marsh near a village of Bartenikha, some 90 km ( 56 miles) west of Minsk, April 7, 2011. The project ?Restoring peatlands and applying concepts for sustainable management in Belarus ? climate change mitigation with economic and biodiversity benefits? runs in the country from September 2008. The project will rewet over 14,000 hectares of degraded peatland, and quantify greenhouse gas emission reductions, participants said. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) 

Tatyana Yarmoshuk and Merten Minke, workers from "APB BirdLife Belarus", prepare equipment for measuring carbon dioxide gas in a marsh near village of Bartenikha, some 90 km (56 miles) west of Minsk, April 7, 2011. The project "Restoring peatlands and applying concepts for sustainable management in Belarus ? climate change mitigation with economic and biodiversity benefits" has been running in the country since September 2008. The project will rewet over 14,000 hectares of degraded peatland, and quantify greenhouse gas emission reductions, participants said. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Advocates of the Reproductive Health Bill stage a 'die-in' during a protest outside the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) building in Manila February 27, 2011. Hundreds of women on Sunday took part in the protest to call on bishops to stop their opposition to the bill, which permits education on contraception. The protesters say that lack of access to reproductive health services in the Philippines causes 11 women to die everyday and about 400,000 to suffer complications. They added that the bill could dramatically reduce maternal deaths by encouraging family planning and the use of contraceptives. REUTERS/ Cheryl Ravelo (PHILIPPINES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS RELIGION SOCIETY) 

NYU photography professor Wafaa Bilal holds the digital camera that will be attached to a mount implanted in the back of his head, in front of the laptop he will carry in a holster, at his apartment in New York December 7, 2010. The concept of the year-long art project, titled "The 3rd I", is based on the idea of capturing things subjectively, without the interference of a viewfinder, according to Bilal. For the next year, images from the camera, uploaded onto the computer, will be streamed over the internet and at a museum in Qatar which commissioned this project. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY SCI TECH ENTERTAINMENT) 

Members of the Reproductive Health Advocacy Network display condoms to support the passage of the Reproductive Health bill and the use of artificial contraception in family planning during a protest outside the presidential palace in Manila October 1, 2010. Powerful Roman Catholic bishops would consider a civil disobedience campaign to block Philippine government efforts to promote contraceptives, but said President Benigno Aquino III had not been threatened with excommunication. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH CIVIL UNREST RELIGION POLITICS) 

A Thai veterinarian prepares male macaque monkeys before their vasectomy procedures in the town of Lopburi, 155 km (96 miles) north of Bangkok, August 19, 2009. Thailand started a birth control programme to sterilise male monkeys with the aim of controlling their population in the famous monkey town of Lopburi. The programme took place after many villagers complained about the increasing numbers of monkeys and their aggressive attacks on people. Picture taken August 19, 2009. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND SOCIETY ANIMALS HEALTH) 

A woman walks past a motel, the former home of the late kung fu star Bruce Lee, in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district July 20, 2009. The billionaire owner of Lee's final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars. The Hong Kong government has launched a competition where the public has been invited to submit ideas and concepts for restoring the two storey house in Kowloon. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu (CHINA POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT) 

A car enters a motel, the former home of the late kung fu star Bruce Lee, in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district July 20, 2009. The billionaire owner of Lee's final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars. The Hong Kong government has launched a competition where the public has been invited to submit ideas and concepts for restoring the two storey house in Kowloon. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu (CHINA POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT) 

Yu Pang Lin, the owner of late actor Bruce Lee's former residence, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong July 20, 2009. Yu, the billionaire owner of Lee's final home, hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars. The Hong Kong government has launched a competition where the public has been invited to submit ideas and concepts for restoring the two storey house in Kowloon. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu (CHINA POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT) 

Yu Pang Lin, the owner of late actor Bruce Lee's former residence, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong July 20, 2009. Yu, the billionaire owner of Lee's final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars. The Hong Kong government has launched a competition where the public has been invited to submit ideas and concepts for restoring the two storey house in Kowloon. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu (CHINA POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT) 

An exterior view is seen of a motel, the former home of the late kung fu star Bruce Lee, in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district July 20, 2009. The billionaire owner of Lee's final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern Hong Kong suburb for millions of dollars. The Hong Kong government has launched a competition where the public has been invited to submit ideas and concepts for restoring the two storey house in Kowloon. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu (CHINA ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS) 

A woman reacts as she is injected with Megestron, an injectable form of contraception which provides contraceptive protection for three months, during a reproductive health fair held to mark World Population Day in Quezon City, Metro Manila July 11, 2009. The Philippine Congress continues to debate a reproductive health bill that will promote family planning and provide health services that will be accessible to poor Filipino families. REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A health worker lectures on different artificial methods of contraception during a reproductive health fair held to mark World Population Day in Quezon City, Metro Manila July 11, 2009. The Philippine Congress continues to debate a reproductive health bill that will promote family planning and provide health services that will be accessible to poor Filipino families. REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A veterinarian operates on a dog during a sterilization exercise in a veterinary camp in Srinagar May 10, 2008. Authorities had decided to round up hundreds of stray dogs for sterilization after receiving complaints that packs of dogs were biting people and chasing vehicles, officials said. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

A woman takes part in a rally in support of the free distribution of the morning-after pill to teenagers 14 and above, in Valparaiso city, about 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Santiago, April 22, 2008. The Constitutional Tribunal, which has the last word in Chile on constitutional law, overruled a decree signed by President Michelle Bachelet over a year ago that authorized the free distribution of the morning-after pill to children 14 and above. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez (CHILE) 

A box of Tri-Cyclen Lo birth control medication for women is seen in a pharmacy in Toronto January 31, 2008. REUTERS/Mark Blinch (CANADA) 

Tibetan Buddhist monk Tenzin Samten strips petals from flowers to be used in a dissolution ceremony for "The Compassionate Sand Mandala for World Peace" at the National Cathedral in Washington October 18, 2007. The monks are from the Dalai Lama's personal Namgyal Monastery, and created the sacred mandala over three days to coincide with the Dalai Lama's visit to Washington. The mandala represents a Buddha's divine place of residence and its creation and destruction is to symbolize the Buddhist concept of the impermanence of things and the importance of non-attachment. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) 

Instruments used by Tibetan Buddhist monks to create "The Compassionate Sand Mandala for World Peace" wait to be used at the National Cathedral in Washington October 16, 2007. The monks are from the Dalai Lama's personal Namgyal Monastery, and created the sacred mandala to coincide with the Dalai Lama's visit to Washington. The mandala represents a Buddha's divine place of residence and its creation and destruction is to symbolize the Buddhist concept of the impermanence of things and the importance of non-attachment. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) 

German soldiers prepare a mortar shell during a proof of Concept demonstration of DAMA, the NATO programme for Defence Against Mortar Attacks, at the firing range Todendorf on the German Baltic Sea coast between Kiel and Fehmarn March 29, 2007. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY) 

German soldiers prepare a mortar shell during a proof of Concept demonstration of DAMA, the NATO programme for Defence Against Mortar Attacks, at the firing range Todendorf on the German Baltic Sea coast between Kiel and Fehmarn March 29, 2007. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY) 

A contestant arranges vegetables for a basket she will carry at an annual contest in the Mexico City suburb of Xochimilco, which challenges mainstream concepts of beauty by rewarding contestants for their indigenous looks and knowledge of local culture March 25, 2007. REUTERS/Jennifer Szymaszek (MEXICO)