Disappearance preserves some presence, always waning into loss.
One anodyne is to collect things. Willingly and unwillingly, I have taken responsibility for preserving things that are passing from the world. I have collected things that are not preservable in primary form, things I cannot own or acquire, which are nevertheless part of me. The testimony I have collected will have to stand in place of the void loss is creating. The small-town and neighbourhood movie theater is almost gone.