Comments on: Thoughts on terminal illness

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:56:55 +0000

When you are surrounded by grief, it doesn’t take much to trigger it.

My mother’s in a nursing home and I have her cat. The cat was hurt and bleeding this morning, and it was very painful for me. I took my cat to the vet, but I’m sure that the feelings I had and the grief had little to do with the cat and much to do with my mother.

This sounds callous, but after watching so many people suffer for months and years before dying, pancreatic cancer’s swift pace seems merciful. I’m hoping for a bolt of lightning at age 92 while I’m outdoors doing something I love…..

Take care of yourself. You feel what you feel for a reason.

By: Sistasmiff

Sistasmiff — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:19:32 +0000

Same thing happened with Bro. Glenn. He was last in the pulpit July 22…gone September 11. Somebody like these guys…spiritual leaders, the ones WE go to when we are hurt, afraid, etc. It’s odd to know they’re in this way.

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By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:40:14 +0000

Elizabeth, everything you are experiencing is perfectly natural. I was my mother’s main caregiver and she passed away almost 8 years ago. Being aware of another soon to be death seems there are emotions that arise and at first I did not know what to do with them. Now I realize that time does not really erase any of this
It is just a deep wound that may have in time a covering over it but it will always be there.
So what you are experiencing is natural.
God Bless You