Cancer

My BFF Makes ‘Your Mom’ Jokes About My Dead Mom — and I Love Her for It

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And I love her for it.

This Funeral Changed How I Feel About Weddings

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Many clergy will admit they would rather perform a funeral than a wedding. I used to be one of them.

When Love Feels Too Risky

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I didn’t realize how my mom’s cancer death would affect my love life — until I met the man I wanted to marry.

Life’s Too Short to Wear Beige

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I was a closeted gay woman surrounded by white-hued walls and yearning for my own colorful world. My sister's death changed everything.

Yes, You Should Binge-Watch Netflix Alone on Mother’s Day

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Cut yourself a break on Mother's Day — with or without a dead partner.

I Hate That Mother’s Day Rips Me Apart with Sadness and Guilt

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I know it's cliché, but the holiday still knocks me off my axis.

My Ectopic Pregnancy Nearly Killed Me

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I’d dreamed of having a baby since my mother died. Then my body betrayed me.

The Best Things in My Life Came From My Brother’s Death

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The best things in my life really did come out of my brother's death.

As My Wife’s Due Date Approached, My Mother Was Defying Death

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I told myself she was holding on to meet the baby. My father and sister had other explanations.

Video Game Review: ‘That Dragon, Cancer’

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A new experience on gaming and grief, created by a couple inspired by the loss of their young son.

Being Heard

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There was something about my first days as a mother that reminded me of my final moments with my own mother. Neither my newborn nor my mother could talk back. But could they understand me?

Closure Is a Unicorn

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My father and I struggled to understand each other. His death was what made me realize I can both love him and being angry with him.

Speak for Your Self

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My sister had a right to be stubborn in facing terminal cancer — even if the rest of us disagreed with her choices.

A Cancer Battle, Then a Miscarriage

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After my mother died of cancer, the hope of bringing a new life into this world kept me afloat. Then I got some very bad news.

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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Struggling after her twin brother's death, a woman wonders if she should (or even could) take time off from working at a tiny startup. Our latest advice column.

Lost, Not Found

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After entering foster care, I got used to losing physical things. But my mother's death isn't a loss -- it's an event, an experience that defies language.

Oliver Sacks’ Brain, on Music

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What did we see inside the brain of the most famous neurologist in the world?

How My Brother’s Death Saved My Life

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After watching Nick die of skin cancer at age 22, I was determined to clean up my act.

Don’t Say Nothing

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And 7 other things to remember when a loved one reveals they are terminally ill.

The Future, Without Me

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I am a happily married mother of two young children and I have terminal lung cancer. These days, I’m consumed with curiosity — and worry — about what my husband’s and children’s lives will look like after I’m gone.

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