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My Dad's last few days......

My Dad, Ian, died last year after battling exceptionally bravely with leukaemia for five years. The medical staff pulled out all the stops to help him in his last year with drug trials and chemo'. They were incredible and very skilled.
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It's been a year since I lost mum - I still miss her so much

I lost my mum last year on the19th May at 8:05pm. It hurts like hell. I miss her so very much. She was amazing, caring, loving, strong, beautiful, generous, protective, warm, and always knew how to take my tears away and make me smile.
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Two very different deaths

At 69 years old my father died. I was 27 years old and scared. Scared of the GP, scared of the district nurse, scared of my mother's grief and scared of my father's pain. And he was in pain and distressed and none of the family spoke about him as we watched this gasping, wretched man lying in a bed in the corner of our sitting room. And even now, 30 years later, I know now what I knew then. My father had a bad death.
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Matthias, our 10-year-old winner

Our son Matthias was diagnosed with a Prostatic Rhabdomyosarcoma two years ago. Our world fell apart when we heard the word cancer; in fact took us a while to actually say 'cancer'. Matthias was told he had cancer and that he would need treatment that would make his hair fall out, among other potential side effects. At first he shouted and screamed, anxious about what he was about to embark on. However, as with each stage of his treatment, he soon embraced it with extreme bravery.
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Facing death, we lived, we loved, we laughed.

The look in her eyes when she opened them and realized I was the one standing at her bedside to welcome her into the morning melted my heart every time. I believe my mother’s almost childlike look of joy on those mornings reflected a combination of happiness and wonder: happiness to see me, because that meant we would be spending another mother-daughter day together; and wonder – or perhaps relief – to be awakening to another day at all, because she knew her days were numbered. My eternally wonderful mother was terminally ill with metastatic lung cancer.
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A Gift of Grace

I was celebrating my 50th birthday and my husband and I had gone out to dinner and a film. When we got home, my daughter, Keri, said, "Your sisters all called to say 'Happy Birthday', but they didn't sound happy." I knew right away my mom had just died. She had been sick for six months with cancer and we all knew she wouldn't live much longer.
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My soul mate died of cancer

My husband was diagnosed with lung cancer with secondaries in liver and bones in June 2011. He died 1 December 2011. We hardly had time to accept the diagnosis before our lives changed on an almost daily basis. I became his full-time carer and he began to slip away very quickly.
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Dying is a part of life, that is what matters

For people living with the symptoms of dementia our deaths will most likely be preceded by a period of rational conversation concerning exactly how we want the moments immediately preceding our last breath to be lived. Questions concerning how we want to maintain some quality, dignity and self-awareness.
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A good death?

My father died at the beginning of the year. He was almost 96, was ready to go and we had accepted that. In the past year he’d had five falls; on Boxing Day he fell again and broke his shoulder – I could feel the crepitus.
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The Journey of Coming Forth Into Day ~ about the role of psychopomp in shamanism

The only certainties in life are death and taxes, according to Benjamin Franklin. So you’d think that, given the 100% inevitability of our demise, we'd make pretty damn sure that we knew a heck of a lot about it. But no. We have every kind of instruction, information, advice and guidance on how to live — but none on how to die.
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