#terminalillness — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ch/48555/ Zurich launches bereavement support service #bereavement #BereavementSupport #CorporateRisk #empathy #EmployeeWelfare #EmployeeWellbeing #JamesTait #LegacyPlanning #LifeVault #LouiseColley #partnership #RonGura #technology #TerminalIllness #wills #Zürich #ZurichInsurance

(kind of a sub-toot, but in the context of my family drama rather than my mastodon drama)

If you have a someone who is about to die, there's no such thing as "too early" when it comes to planning for their death.

Invite the people who want to say goodbye early rather than late. If the person lives longer than you expected, all good, and they might get a chance to say goodbye twice. Don't wait till the person who is leaving has drifted so far away that you've lost that chance for connection.

Don't prevent people from talking about death and dying if that's what they need. People have the right to opt out but it's disrespectful to shut down that conversation for other people.

There is nothing wrong or weird about planning the funeral and memorial service while the person is still alive. The shock of grief does weird things to families and friends, and ideally you shouldn't be wrestling with funeral logistics while in that state.

#dying #TerminalIllness

I did not have "wake up, cough, puke, be dizzy for hours" on my bingo card for today.

#ChronicIllness #TerminalIllness

Cinema loves dying girls who never get sick, never get ugly, and never disrupt the romance. Three films, one lie: terminal illness as a decorative subplot.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #TerminalIllness #PlotDevice #Cancer #Movies #Narrative #GenderPolitics #Romance #BucketListMovies #IndieFilm
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/the-aestheticization-of-mortality-a-comparative-analysis-of-terminal-illness-narratives-in-boardwalk-winter-life-in-a-year-and-me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl/

Jack Schlossberg’s shaved head haters apologize

After Jack Schlossberg’s sister, Tatiana, has spoken publicly about her devastating terminal cancer diagnosis, some of his past…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #CA #Canada #cancer #CarolineKennedy #Entertainment #kennedys #NewYorkCitySociety #Politics #RobertF.KennedyJr. #Society #terminalillness
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/308952/

Protect the terminally ill from poverty (Petition)

https://campaigns.mariecurie.org.uk/page/159107/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=meta-feed-5BNEW&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=120235040317340531&utm_content=120236433093540531&utm_term=120236433093520531&utm_campaign=120235040317340531&fbclid=PAdGRzdgOLKypleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqyrGgyil83NydGMGYXBwX2lkDzU2NzA2NzM0MzM1MjQyNwABpwlcC0Bq6w4bLtZZ5_iJXX0yYDDevqhQ_JJj9m2LPVbsdyvTK4SIRQ8L_VQo_aem_ZQnuJFKyYMnfz54Yv89HNw&utm_source=facebook&campaign_id=120235040317340531&ad_id=120236433093540531

#terminalillness

#MultipleSclerosis #MS #MSSucks #TerminalIllness #TerminalDisease

https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/columns/chairborne-a-column-by-ben-hofmeister/2025/04/10/you-cant-instant-professional-living-ms/

Now that the Assisted Dying Bill here in the UK has passed the first hurdle in the line to becoming legal, I have to say I think the it's being rushed, and there needs to be a firm legal and medical framework put in place before assisted dying becomes law. Certainly our National Health Service as of now, is not equipped for a change as big as this. There also needs to be 100% watertight legal protection for vulnerable people who could be coerced into euthanasia. It needs more thought, though I absolutely do agree with the principle.
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #TerminalIllness
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/assisted-dying-bill-vote-result-mps-b2656018.html

Friends when you need them

Cancer talk about death

https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-4365-be83-3bb8-c34387589966

An important perspective on hospices. My sister was diagnosed with stage 4 incurable cancer about 18 months ago, she was initially horrified to receive a letter about palliative care, but her local hospice offers her so much more than just end of life care. This includes therapy, massages and any number of other outpatient services for her and her family.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221648271/hospice-care-myths-jimmy-carter-end-of-life

#TerminalIllness #cancer #hospice

I've been quiet and patchy on social media for a while now - partly because of ongoing long COVID - which I've been transparent about - but also because my mother's dementia is worsening. Which I haven't chosen to talk openly about until now.

Dementia is a horrible terminal disease, and although my mother's has been kind to us as she still recognises the people closest to her and that is somewhat comforting as her world gets smaller and smaller, it is still devestating.

I am my mother's responsible person for everything - do your advance planning everyone! - and although we are well-organised this is still incredibly difficult and exhausting. For anyone who has waited for me to return emails or phone calls this is the primary reason, and again I thank you for your patience with my erratic schedule.

I will be travelling back to the mainland this weekend, returning next week, to help settle my mum into full-time care. The admin alone is astonishing, as those of you who have undertaken this process understand, but the details of moving a life from a home into a care facility is wrenching and fraught.

Have a good weekend and I'll see you soon,

Annetta

#GDEP #EndOfLife #Alzheimers #dementia #TerminalIllness #AdvancePlanning #care #PersonalTime #TimeOut #admin #forms #emotion #love

A terminally-ill Kansas man’s hospital room was raided by cops because he used a weed vape and THC paste to ease the symptoms of the cancer that will kill him within weeks.
#medicalmarijuana #weed #cannabis #terminalillness #cancer #THC

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/police-raid-hospital-room-of-terminally-ill-kansas-patient/ar-AA15Gv03