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Losing Someone to Illness

Losing someone you love to illness can be a long and grueling journey. While you may begin to grieve before your loved one dies, grief and mourning can continue long after your loved one's death. I... Read More »

Tagged: living with loss, losing someone to illness, understanding grief, cancer, illness

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks

By Robin Romm What I really want is to be able to travel through time. I would be younger; my mom would be healthy. We would be in her car, folk music playing. She would be annoying me by holding ... Read More »

Tagged: losing a parent, cancer, The Mercy Papers, Robin Romm

How Can We Hope When There Is No Hope?

By Elizabeth Harper Neeld, Ph.D. The poet and writer Raymond Carver, told at age 50 that he would soon die of cancer, illustrates hope when he asked himself in one of his final poems if he had ... Read More »

Tagged: illness and grief, cancer, losing a parent, living with loss, understanding grief

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