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My Dad passed away before I graduated law school

Hi everyone. My dad passed away on December 23, 2018. An agressive form of myeloma took his life at the age of 57. It only took the cancer 6 months. I was entering my final year of law school when I learned that my dad had cancer. During the months that he was ill,...Read More

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Final curtin.

Barbara is very low at this time, she made the effort on Sunday to have local visitors and spent some time calling distant family but lack of energy finally beat her, as she wanted to chat to you, unfortunately this will never happen, as communication has all but ...Read More

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Grieving

Hi I’m Zen, 3 days ago I lost my husband from stage 4 colon cancer and it’s was metastasis. In June I had lumpectomy and had one month radiation treatment. One after my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer, he had 9 months chemo and one 15 minute radiation t...Read More

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My Mother's Legacy

We lost my mother aged 73 to stomach cancer 6 weeks ago. While she was ill, she was publicly shamed by a waitress in a restaurant. Below is the story of how we took cancer shaming to the national press and postumously my mother changed a nationwide policy for futur...Read More

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We lost our Sister today

Our eldest Sister was diagnosed with Stage 3 NHL in May this year. It progressed to stage 4 around a month ago and yesterday we were told there was nothing more that could be done. We lost her this evening. While I totally understand we weren't the first to lose a ...Read More

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Help for those grieving or how to help prepare your family.

Hey everyone,Im new and this is my first post. My grandmother had stage 2 breast cancer 8 years ago and beat it but she is due for her check up to see if she is still in remision so I have not been feeling great. I think everyone can sympathize with the equal feeli...Read More

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Losing 2 parents to cancer

I lost my dad to lung cancer 18 years ago. At the time I was pregnant with my first daughter. I was hoping he would be alive when my daughter was born but he died 2 days before she was born. I don’t think I ever grieved properly as I was busy caring for my baby & ...Read More

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I feel like i’m never going to be okay ever again

Hi there, this is the first time ever for me to do this online i hope i came to the right place im really new at this. So my father died in september 6 2013 ( I was 19 ) he was sick but i was somewhat young and just started university, so i wasn’t really attached o...Read More

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How do I find a new life without him?

My husband of 12 years died in August this year of pancreatic cancer. It will be 2 months tomorrow. Ours was a very deep love and we cherished and adored each other.I was his carer for 2.5 years as well as working full time until his terminal diagnosis 2 months bef...Read More

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Need support, no family left.

Hello....Im not really sure what to say. I am having a very hard time with the loss of my father on christmas this past december. I do not really ever see or speak to my mother, I live on my own. My brother was very very recently killed in afghanistan while trying ...Read More

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