Cancer Support

...breakthrough, may I suggest a reading for your family?

I'm currently healthy with no identified diseases, but I got a copy for my wife to have when my prognosis becomes poor as it surely will as I'm hardly immortal. I have also advised my sons that they should read it.

The book is by Palliative Care Physician Sunita Puri, it's called That Good Night.

Having lived through terminal illnesses with both my parents, and my wife's parents and through very rough times in family relations at the time as a result, I wish I'd been familiar with that book. It would have saved some of the grief layered on the grief of loss.

The wonderful thing I tell myself about dying, I remind myself as my inevitable mortality approaches, is that one cannot die without having lived. You have lived, and perhaps you can see, it makes all the pain of facing death to have done so more bearable.

I wish you peace.