My loving wife Wendy is home from the ICU. Hospice care has started for her, and I think the end is now quite near.

She and I were married just 7 weeks ago. She is 45, I am 66. A week after our wedding she began to feel run down. We sought medical attention, and the doctor was so shocked by what he saw that he sent her to the ER.

Incredibly the diagnosis was end stage liver disease. She has been back to the emergency room twice more now for additional blood…

Between my mother’s slow death, at 45, in 1968 and my dad’s sudden passing in 1996, much had changed about how we process those losses and the grief that follows. What hadn’t changed so much was the way deaths were announced in obituaries: death notices were still, for the most part, fairly straightforward without much flourish or fanfare. Not many of the special traits and eccentricities that make us all unique were included in those days.

But with The New York…

Hello everyone my dad died on April 10th.  He made me trustee I have two older Brothers and my dad also added my Daughter and Grandchild in his trust.  My Brothers have not stopped arguing with me why did Dad do that yelling and yelling, hounding me about selling the house, would not sign papers, my daughter and them have never got along.  We did but not anymore all they do is call me and tell me what they want.  They were not close to my Dad but they sure want his money and things.  I just…

Q. I want to arrange for perpetual care for my late husband’s grave, but am not quite sure what’s involved, how to proceed, and how much it will cost. Also, what’s the difference between perpetual care and a permanent maintenance fund? 

Most states require cemeteries regulated by the state to establish a permanent endowed fund for cemetery maintenance. The principal cannot be withdrawn from the fund; but the income derived pays for annual upkeep—services…

my name is crystal. Ijust lost my soul mate Stephane on May 11th 2013.

He was my everything , i miss him so much .

I have decided to write about my frustrations as it relates to my relationship with my son.Chris who turned the big 18 in April, and should be a Grad year for him as well. There is nothing that I could of ever done to my children that warrants this shutdown. My love for him has never changed and it never will.Chris lives with his Grandmother and his mother who I call Sybil 1 & Sybil 2. They have issued bogus assault  charges against me what a joke..My daughter was Killed because of there…

If you have Netflix access, this is the link to hear of the tragic story of  19 year old Katie Poirer, she was kidnapped and later brutally murdered by Donald Blom over one Memorial Day weekend in 1999.  Katie was a teenager just earning extra money working at the local convenience store in the quiet fishing/vacation spot where my paternal grandparents lived in Moose Lake.  The story created a media sensation when FBI investigators were able to tie one of her teeth found in Blom's fire pit…

I traveled and left my sister in charge of my children in the house. At night thugs broke into the house and shot her where she succumbed. its very painful loss to cope with and my children.please advice us.

I just signed up today I lost my DH on March 11th the day before our 8 year anniversery he took our 3 children, my pregnant step daughter and son in law to the river to play with a remote controlled boat the river was starting to flood the boat got stuck so my 8 year old went to get it out of the bushes my husband told him to come back but he reached down and fell in my son in law and my husband jumped in to save him my husband was able to grab him and swim to the shore and pass him to a…

Q. My husband died recently and I’m thinking about what should be written on his stone. Are there any rules to follow—or any caveats? I don’t want to look back a few years from now and think “Why on earth did I pick those words?”

You’re talking about an “epitaph,” a commemorative inscription on a gravestone. The format usually includes the deceased’s name and date of birth and death:

Thomas Jones…

I lost my husband to a massive stroke in March. He had complained of a bad headache but didn't want to go to the doctor. This went on for 5 days until one night he had a stroke. I was supposed to take care of him. It's my fault he's gone. I've made him go to the doctor before. Why didn't I this time. I cry every night in bed and when I wake for a few seconds I think it was just a dream then reality hits and I cry some more.

An acquaintance had an aggressive form of cancer. I was kept in the loop via text messages and Facebook and so it seemed natural to learn of her death through a text. A friend of the bereaved sent a mass text, not one but a series, with funeral notifications, meal requests, and donation preferences. Friends of the bereaved began writing condolence messages on her Facebook wall.

My first thought upon hearing of the death was to send a condolence note; but I changed my…

My name is Ken and I just recently lost my partner Bob from Liver Cancer. We were together almost 39 years and raised my two daughters and have 3 grandchildren.

Bobby was told in April 2011 that he had liver cancer and given a year. Last April he was given 1 1% chance on making the night he passed this…