Dying For Beginners

Jessica and all of us in her family received a lot of meaningful support from the Leukaemia Foundation.

Please sponsor me and support the Leukaemia Foundation

To help them to continue helping others I’m taking part in the Leukaemia Foundation World’s Greatest Shave this year on March 11.

Take a look at my Profile Page by clicking this link:http://my.imisfriendraising.com.au/personalPage.aspx?SID=111263

I’d like you to support me by making a secure online donation using your credit card.

- Every hour of every day, at least one person in Australia is diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma.
- Every two hours, someone loses their life to blood cancer.

Please help me raise as much as I can for the Leukaemia Foundation. Their vital work provides patients with practical support during their long and tough treatment, as well as funding important research.

Thanks for your support!

Jason

Maybe you’ve heard about Jade Goody even if you’re not from the UK.

She became famous in that country for appearing on the reality TV Show Big Brother and is now dying from cancer.
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Where should you request your remains to be left?

This is a difficult question as it has both legal and moral implications.
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It seems whenever someone famous dies the news starts with “Celebrity Xyz today lost their brave battle with [insert illness here]”.

Jessica was quite annoyed by this phrase.
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This was a two day seminar, led by Judy Arpana, held in Sydney back in October 06.

Jess asked me to go on a two day course with her, “about dying”. I agreed, booked, and then tried not to think about it too much. Until suddenly I was there. Feeling a bit confronted and scared.

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Hello all,

On one hand, I don’t want to write this post because it’s morbid and silly to. On the other hand, life is unpredictable, and if things do go not according to plan, I want to have said all that I will say here. Jason knows it’s here, and will post it if necessary.
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So this is is that post – or probably will be. I am in hospital in Mackay – the palliative care hospital. As you know I had pneumonia in January. I never recovered from the water in my lungs. So this may be the final or close to final post I write.
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Life is crazy. My brain is crazy. Everything is crazy. I am assured that if I was ‘normal’ (stupid word) and there wasn’t all this painkiller and stuff cruising through my brain, that things would not seem so overwhelming. Meanwhile, I have a new cordless mouse and cordless keyboard which makes typing so much easier that I feel like I must write a blog.
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I have had a week from hell. That sounds melodramatic but it was the first time I seriously contemplated bringing all my loved ones to Brisbane to say goodbye.
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Life Force Cancer Foundation

by Jane Gillespie

Life Force saved my life. Maybe that sounds melodramatic, but it felt true for me when I crashed and burnt emotionally and psychologically after cancer treatment in 1994. Back then there was little recognition that emotional counselling and support needs to be part of the whole treatment of cancer.
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