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Tab

(11,093 posts)
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:41 AM Mar 2016

Anyone interested in a forum dedicated to End of Life issues?

Last edited Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:02 PM - Edit history (1)

Am x-posting in Cancer and in Health / Chronic conditions. I think I need just 10 supporters to pull this off.

The forum is not the standard what-should-I-expect-from-my-cancer-diagnosis, or how-do-deal-with-x-disease, but more for people for whom life is known to be closing out, discuss the best practices of what you should do legally (power of attorney's, etc.), where your status is (hospice, etc), what you want to (or should) leave behind for others (for instance passwords to stuff, personal letters, etc.). It's also open to people in the position with other people/family facing EOL issues of their own.

If interested, please respond to this thread. If you think this is redundant of another thread, please let me know so I can check it out, but on first glance I don't see anything so focused.

Peace to you all.

- Tab

On edit: Under DU rules, I need 10 agreements to make it happen. If you're interested, but just not posting, please post. Otherwise it'll not happen. Thanks

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Anyone interested in a forum dedicated to End of Life issues? (Original Post) Tab Mar 2016 OP
I would be interested. Staph Mar 2016 #1
I would be. n/t auntAgonist Mar 2016 #2
Count me in! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2016 #3
I would be interested n/t BuelahWitch Mar 2016 #4
Count me in as well ... slipslidingaway Mar 2016 #5
kick nt slipslidingaway Mar 2016 #6
Tab, maybe you want to cross post in GD? BuelahWitch Mar 2016 #7
Just got diagnosed terminal. Suich Mar 2016 #8
. BuelahWitch Mar 2016 #9
Sorry to hear that Tab Mar 2016 #11
I have both this thread and one I placed in GD Tab Mar 2016 #10
count me in olddots Mar 2016 #12

Staph

(6,340 posts)
1. I would be interested.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 08:33 AM
Mar 2016

I was diagnosed and treated for endometrial cancer three years ago. Though I am, at present, cancer-free, that diagnosis is one huge wake-up call. And I am the caregiver for my 92 year old mother, so I'm interested in the subject from both points of view.


slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
5. Count me in as well ...
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 12:30 AM
Mar 2016

although it is a difficult topic for all of us on this forum, we'll all experience this someday.



Tab

(11,093 posts)
11. Sorry to hear that
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 04:50 PM
Mar 2016


It's not easy to actually hear the words, because we're all led to believe we'll live to be 100 or whatever (in my case, 80), but it looks like that's been advanced a few decades. This is a good forum (I mean Cancer Support) to lean on. You can PM me privately or ask for a phone # if you'd like anyone to talk to. Wish you the best.

Tab

(11,093 posts)
10. I have both this thread and one I placed in GD
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 04:45 PM
Mar 2016

Probably 40 supporters between them, ignoring some duplicates. I've posted it to Ask the Administrators, so I'm just waiting to hear back.

I need a forum like this too.

Thanks

- Tab

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