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Facing end of life
How do we talk about death and dying? This is a place to share questions and thoughts about the end of life, including discussions with friends and family, and saying goodbye.
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Hi all! Delighted to have discovered this community today, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me. My Mum, who is 46, was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 breast cancer about 18 months ago. It's in her breast (she had breast cancer previously and had a ...Read More
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I don't really see much discussion around death, but let's face it - it's one commonality to the human condition - inevitably at some stage we all must die. My son's jujitsu teacher died in a motorcycle accident very recently. A young man, in his prime, early 30s....Read More
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HiI was diagnosed with both Hodgkin and Non-Hodgekin Lymphoma in 2009. I received ABVD treatment in 2009 and an Autologus Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) in 2012. I handled ABVD well, continue to work with minimal disruption. BMT knocked me around a bit, and I had ...Read More
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Hi my husband has been battling stage 4 mantle b cell lymphoma for 8 months now. All chemo has failed and been told his cancer is terminal and only a few months to live. We both are devasted. We are so lost.
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Wow this is such a dilemma ...my husband has stage 3 cancer affecting stomach, oesphagus, lymph glad is affected. His heart is not good..do we accept an operation with high risks of death or worse still sloe death from various complications..pain. Or do we take the...Read More
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HiMy relative doesn't have much time left but I'm guessing between days to IF weeks very few.she has late stage metastasised breast cancerShe sleeps most of day and only manages one or two bites of food.Symptoms include all I expected, weight loss, confusion, extre...Read More
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Hi all. ^^Not a very nice place to write, but I will do my best to explain stuff.I'm diagnosed with "familial adenomatous polyposis". I have about 100-120 polyps, both in stomack and rectum/colon ....I just got out of hospital, and my release paper says that they d...Read More
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Hello guys,I know that I am asking about a difficult topic and I thus figured that it would be the best thing to ask people who are directly concerned by cancer. Background: I am designing a role-play based on the book "The Fault in Our Stars" by "John Green" which...Read More
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At 82, I guess that most of us are considering that, at this age we are on the home run on one's journey through life. Especially after having spent the last 30 years of it warding off attacks by Meningioma Tumors, Prostate Cancer, Diabetes and several cases of ...Read More
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