This Is Us | Goodbye, Rebecca | Our Favorite Moments from “The Train”

We knew Rebecca’s death was coming, but the end still hit us hard. Let’s review some of Mandy Moore’s best (and most heartbreaking) moments from Episode 6x17. #ThisIsUs

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[brittanylynn]

This episode was beautifully written and phenomenally acted. William's quote about something being sad when it's over means it was wonderful while it happened makes me ugly cry everytime

[suzanneharris]

"The Train " was sad and also one of the most beautiful and best tv episodes ever Mandy Moore deserves an award

[nz]

Love how Toby asked Rebecca if he’s her favorite Kate husband

[joshualapointe]

I think Randall should be praised for his resilience. This man lost 2 sets of parents.

[sadem]

This episode literally DESTROYED me. I just sobbed.

[Etigress]

It was a great episode, I cried from start to end. But I was hoping Rebecca would meet the baby she lost. Oh well.

[snoringcatP]

I just watched this after everyone went to sleep and cried so much my cat got scared and clung to me.

[sidersproductions]

Right at about 38 minutes in when Randall starts giving his farewell to Rebecca the music is just perfect and beautifully matched to the words. Please if anyone knows if that's an actual song, let me know cause I want that to be an actual song I can leave on repeat.🥺

[DarthRainz]

If I was a Creative Writer on This is US. I would've had Rebecca walk into the Cabose to see Jack Holding the Baby they lost in the beginning. I would've had the entire world crying.

[karlavaleriapachecodealba]

Did not watch the episode yet, but I am fucking crying

[MW_Shogun]

I wish real life were actually like this, but sadly it isn’t. My mom passed away in 2018 from a 9 year struggle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that eventually spread to her brain. Her last days in the hospital were in a coma, and we did the same thing; we gathered around her and tried to each get one last message of love across. Nurses and friends assured us that she was “there” and that “she could hear us”…we believed them.

A week to the day after we put her in the ground, my dad was taken to the hospital because he wasn’t acting right. Long story short, he had complications from bleeding esophageal varices, and they had to intubate him and stop the bleeding. They put him in a medically induced coma for a week, and while he was under, my brother and I tried to talk to him and assure him we were there, the same way we did with our mom. Some time later, after he was extubated and back to normal, we asked him what it was like during that week, and if he heard us. He said not only could he not hear us, but that he had experienced some of the worst nightmares he’s ever had, and couldn’t wake up from them. Even when he first awoke from the coma, he was delusional and envisioning things that weren’t there, like giant black cobwebs with cat-sized spiders, and thousands of glowing cockroaches on the clean hospital walls.

I have no choice but to believe that since my mom was in the same state, none of our messages got through. But I remind myself of a quote from Donnie Darko: “every living creature on Earth dies alone”, meaning that when your time comes, even if you’re surrounded by family, friends, and loved ones, in the end, you alone must face death. And maybe that’s not so bad.