Death and Dying

Friday, Dec 21, 2012 1:00 AM UTC

My junkie friend secretly died

It was posted on Facebook but I didn't know! Now my friends think I didn't care!

Cary Tennis 14 Topics: Since You Asked, Music, Musicians, Country Music, Folk music, musician, friendship, Death and Dying

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012 1:00 AM UTC

My dad’s gone off the rails

He nursed mom until she died; now he's like a lost soul. It's scary

Cary Tennis 14 Topics: grief, Death and Dying, Fathers, Alcoholism, Family, Since You Asked, Al-Anon

Monday, Oct 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTC

Helping my mother grieve

I lost my father; she lost her husband. Can I lift her sadness?

Cary Tennis 10 Topics: Death and Dying, Fathers, Mother and Child, Mother, Family, Since You Asked, grief

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012 8:18 PM UTC

A kids club where parents die

When I got cancer, I put my kids in a support group. Then the death toll started rising

Mary Elizabeth Williams Topics: grief, support groups, Death and Dying, Parenting, Motherhood, Cancer, kids

Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012 6:33 PM UTC

So many books, so little time

A son talks about the books he and his mother chose to read during the last months of her life

Laura Miller Topics: Will Schwalbe, Death and Dying, Motherhood, Cancer, Readers and Reading, Books, The End of Your Life Book Club

Saturday, Sep 22, 2012 1:00 PM UTC

Should the terminally ill control their deaths?

A year after my mother's uncomfortable decline, it's a question with which I'm still wrestling

Daniel Krieger, Narratively 13 Topics: Narratively, Disease, Human Rights, Death and Dying, Life stories, Cancer, Palliative Care

Thursday, Aug 30, 2012 12:00 AM UTC

Who’ll raise my kids if I die?

I may have only 18 months to live, and my husband is being a real SOB

Cary Tennis 56 Topics: Since You Asked, Cancer, Death and Dying, Family, Verbal Abuse, Marriage, Divorce, women

Friday, Jul 20, 2012 12:00 AM UTC

So you’re dying? Just don’t change!

Since cancer came, my best friend has changed. Now she doesn't have long to live, but I can barely face her

Cary Tennis 51 Topics: Cancer, Death and Dying, Since You Asked

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 12:00 AM UTC

Mom, 94, letting go

She is on a ventilator. She is unconscious. Who among us is not ready?

Cary Tennis 22 Topics: Since You Asked, Death and Dying, Mother

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:00 AM UTC

A death that was also a birth

As a midwife, I've spent the last 30 years taking care of women in pregnancy. But nothing prepared me for this

Tova Hinda Siegel Topics: Life stories, Children, Death and Dying

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:00 AM UTC

I changed. My wife didn’t

My father's death taught me how precious life is. I can't be petty and neurotic anymore. But my wife sure can!

Cary Tennis 20 Topics: Since You Asked, Death and Dying, Marriage