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    • 9 Ratings
    • 2495 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Almost Child

    JANUARY 24, 2012 2:22PM

    By Lesley Clark Ferree


    Topics: cancer, death, dying, doctors, kids, love, life, happiness, sadness, children, female, ovaries, cyst, illness, sickness, childbirth, friendship

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 955 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    How Do You Know When It's Time to Go?

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 9:06AM

    By Pat MacEnulty


    Topics: old age, death, dying, memoir

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2229 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Mom's Confession: The Secret Box

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 1:53PM

    By Joan E. Kaufman


    Topics: birth mother, mother, children, adoption, hospital, alcoholism, cancer, dying, death, family, my parents' secret lives, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 857 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    The Loss of a Pet, Purpose, and Everything

    AUGUST 19, 2011 1:01AM

    By Edward Carney


    Topics: rabbit, pet, personal, loss, failure, dying, death, bunny

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 758 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Nurse Practitioner Sue has Hepatitis C

    AUGUST 8, 2011 4:24PM

    By Livingwhiledying


    Topics: hepatitis c, chronic illness, coping, dying

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 520 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Waiting with a Friend

    JULY 17, 2011 7:14PM

    By Mel Jones


    Topics: friendship, dying, death, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 814 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Living with Dying

    JULY 12, 2011 1:27AM

    By Marty'sHusband


    Topics: caregiving, strokes, living in the moment, future, dying, death

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1507 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    My Mom is Dying and I'm in a Bad Mood

    JUNE 15, 2011 7:15AM

    By Pat MacEnulty


    Topics: elder care, dying, death

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 1302 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Daily Lunches with Dom Deluise

    SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 9:10AM

    By Duane Gundrum


    Topics: dom deluise, lunch, celebrity, childhood, news, stories, memoirs, family, open+call, mothers, diabetes, dying, loss, poverty

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 3838 Views
    • 73 Comments
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    My Mother's Body

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 8:53AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: mothers, daughters, nakedness, aging, dying, old mermaids, pie

    • Editor's Pick
    • 56 Ratings
    • 1582 Views
    • 61 Comments
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    grimace

    AUGUST 30, 2010 1:53PM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: forgiveness, mothers, sons, family, error, death, dying, compassion, getting past all that low road human error

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 5660 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    How Watching My Father Die Changed How I Live My Life

    MAY 5, 2010 5:10PM

    By Strawberry Girl


    Topics: open call, assisted suicide, health, family, cancer, grief, dying, death

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 4076 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The Long Goodbye: Death be Not Like Everyone Else's

    FEBRUARY 2, 2010 4:33PM

    By Andrea Higbie


    Topics: music, old, sid vicious, song, baby boomer, dead, dying, andrea higbie; higbie; death; funeral; texas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 2536 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    The Appearance of the Blue Man into my Life.

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 12:16PM

    By BuffyW


    Topics: health, family, environment, love, heartbreak, death is not for the weak of heart, hospital, disbelief, denial, dying, wheelchair, appearances of blue, so cold

    • Editor's Pick
    • 61 Ratings
    • 4311 Views
    • 73 Comments
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    Permission to Die

    AUGUST 10, 2009 1:05PM

    By Rev. Dr. Monte Canfield


    Topics: hope, death, hospice, dying, permission to die, christianity, religion, compassion, love, god's love, chaplain, calling, duty

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 19174 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    10 Strange Celebrity Deaths

    JULY 8, 2009 10:10PM

    By J. Robert Godbout


    Topics: celebrities, death, dying, famous people

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 4337 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Integrity vs. Despair in the Elderly (and Me)

    MAY 13, 2009 6:28AM

    By nurseliz


    Topics: the good die young and the rest live forever, nursing homes, health, family, dying, elderly, sick, dnr, a serious post for once, blogging is cheaper than therapy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 1461 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Chicory Blue

    APRIL 2, 2009 10:21AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: grief, dying, spring, summer, love, death and dying, resolution, lorraine berry, lightning

    • Editor's Pick
    • 52 Ratings
    • 1973 Views
    • 63 Comments
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    "You're All Here...I Must Be Dying": Scattering Mom's Ashes

    MARCH 20, 2009 5:16PM

    By grif -


    Topics: dying, death, cremation, together again, last hug

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 794 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Laundry, Natasha Richardson, and me

    MARCH 19, 2009 7:43AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: grief, dying, brain injury, aneurysm, natasha richardson, lorraine berry, scents

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