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Can the World Mend in This Body?

By Deena Metzger — 2018

The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.

Read on darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com

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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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LIFE Before Death Cancer Pain

"Cancer Pain" Short Film 9 of 50 in the LIFE Before Death documentary series about the global crisis in untreated pain and the dramatic life changing effect palliative care services can deliver to patients and their families around the world.

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Terminally Ill 29-year-old to End Her Life

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Brittany Maynard made the decision to take her own life and made a video explaining why.

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Fear of Dying—Young Adults with Cancer Series, “Moving Forward”

A cancer diagnosis often brings concerns about how long your life will be. In these two “Moving Forward” videos from ASCO and the LIVESTRONG Foundation, learn from oncology experts and young adult survivors about coping with this common fear.

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The Smooth River: Finding Inspiration and Exquisite Beauty during Terminal Illness. Lessons from the Front Line.

A couple developed a far more expansive and creative view of what strength means in response to a cancer diagnosis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River.

Richard S. Cohen

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Terminal Cancer: Gareth’s Story | Cancer Research UK

Watch Gareth share his brave story on terminal cancer. 25-year-old Gareth was in the army in 2015 when he was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma. He had his leg amputated to remove the cancer, and was able to join the Paralympic Team GB squad.

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Living with Cancer

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The Meaning in Cancer: Finding Purpose Towards the End of Life | Donna Tran | TEDxMSU

What can metastatic breast cancer patients teach us about the meaning in life? Based on her research at Stanford University and UCSF, Donna Tran discusses how people can transform and improve their quality of life through meaning-centered psychotherapy.

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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.

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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer.

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