I help terminally-ill parents to leave stories behind
Working with cancer patients makes me more determined to experience all that life has to offer, but sometimes the pain is
Working with cancer patients makes me more determined to experience all that life has to offer, but sometimes the pain is
What is it like to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O’Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow.
UK – Instead of trying to outwit mortal disease, we should be learning to face our fate with courage. I’m writing this after hearing an apparently innocuous and encouraging snippet of news – that a new lung cancer treatment is capable of giving
LA – There is one word most doctors hate to say: Dying. Many of them will go to great lengths — even subterfuge — to avoid it. Sure, nobody likes to deliver bad news. But shouldn’t physicians have mastered that? In a recent study