"(Her death) was never real. It still kind of isn't," the actor tells Anderson Cooper on this Sunday's 60 Minutes. "There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years ... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I'm going to hear her."
The grief "hits you. It's like a wave. You just get this profound feeling of instability … the earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes."
Richardson died at age 45 from a head injury sustained while skiing.
"She was on life support … I went in to her and I told her I loved her, said 'Sweetie, you're not coming back from this, you've banged your head … she and I had made a pact, if any of us got into a vegetative state that we'd pull the plug … that was my immediate thought …'OK, these tubes have to go. She's gone.' "
After family members and friends said goodbye, Neeson chose to donate three of her organs: her heart, kidneys and liver, "so she's keeping three people alive at the moment ... It's terrific…and I think she would be very thrilled and pleased by that."

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