Terminal illness

When my father began our phone conversation with the words, "Are you sitting down?" I knew the news to follow would not be good; but I never in my wildest dreams imagined he would tell me my 73-year-old mother was terminally ill...

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Knowing what to do for a person with a terminal illness can be challenging, which is where Project 4031 can step in to help.

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Terminal illness has no face until it’s your child’s.

I have been asked many times how can you still be smiling when you are so ill? We choose to celebrate life. How can you go out to conventions and speak to others? Isn’t this the time you should be cared for, when others should take over the hard stuff and let you have a

To my family, as we comfort Mom on her journey to her next life.

~ Oliver Sacks

Facing the possibility that a parent may be in mental decline isn't easy — especially during the holidays.