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Facing Cancer Recurrence, PTSD & Acknowledging Mental Health
Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Sep 24 10:31am | Replies (447)Comment receiving replies
Good morning @hopeful33250. Good morning everyone! What a wonderful article about cancer recurrences. Thank you so much.
My most feared fear is that I would die from my next cancer, that there would be no treatments anymore for me. My feelings are that I wouldn't know what to do. I would be lost. I mean how do you die? How does anyone? What do I do to prepare from this eventuality. I'll be lost. My parents never taught me a thing about dying. The way I handle this - with no guarantee of a solution - is that I let these fears repeat themselves enough that they literally wear themselves out over time. I think dying is a major fear because we haven't a clue what it's all about after we actually die. Is there another type of existence after we die? Will a higher power greet me? Or is death the same thing as before we are born and therefore we will only have existed in people's memories? As you can see, I haven't resolved this yet. I hope that I do but I might not.
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Wow, Merry, such deep thoughts. I'm sorry that your family didn't talk about dying. I was raised in an active Christian family and with grandparents who died when I was a teenager.. We knew that they believed in Jesus and so they went to Heaven when they died, which is a better place. The process leading up to death seems to be an unknown for most of us - dying in our sleep, or very slowly losing our ability to function, or anything in between.
There are a lot of books about death and dying, and also near death experiences - people whose bodies stopped then they were revived and had experiences to share. "Imagine Heaven" looks at hundreds of these experiences, and researchers who checked them out (such as woman who was "flying" outside the hospital and saw a shoe on a 3rd floor ledge - the interviewer found the shoe on the ledge, just as she described it). My understanding is that there is a lot more to our lives after our earthly existence ends. It's definitely worth checking out. Maybe checking it out will help dispel your fears. Keep asking questions! Blessings Wendy
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