Elsewhere by James S. A. Corey (Avatars Inc., 2020) opens with the narrator arriving at a hospital to see her dying father. She isn’t there in person but as an avatar (a robotic telepresence). As she talks to her father it becomes apparent that she is using this method of visiting because she is almost totally paralyzed, and has been since she was a child. We also learn that, when it became apparent she was never going to recover, she was introduced to virtual reality games and eventually managed to attend architectural college and graduate. Now, by the use of avatars, she works all over the world.
The last part of the story sees her watch her father pass away. There is a good penultimate line:
And how strange it is that, in just a few minutes, there will be two bodies in this room whose consciousness had left them to go elsewhere. p. 41
A slight piece—but it has a neat idea, and the elegiac feel at the end is well enough done.
*** (Good). 3,600 words. Story link.