Clinical trials can offer hope to patients and their loved ones, but what happens when they reach end of life on a trial?

COVID isn’t just a come-and-go illness for everyone. Sophie Fox tells her story of long COVID leading to chronic fatigue syndrome at the loss of her way of life and livelihood.

COVID isn’t just a come-and-go illness for everyone. Sophie Fox tells her story of long COVID leading to chronic fatigue syndrome at the loss of her way of life and livelihood.

You don’t have to forgive your abuser because they’re dying.

Mitigation of disenfranchised grief is vital.

Employers owe it to their employees to make a grief-positive workplace.

Healthcare providers may develop intense and caring relationships with their patients, particularly those they work with long-term, and these can be inadvertently draining.

Bereavement can be complicated, complex, and cumulative.

Grief for people who identify as LGBTQIA+ rather than heteronormative can be more complex and heartbreaking.

Our anniversary trip to Asheville occurred right after Asheville’s second wind telephone was placed.

Cancer is a very painful disease.

Despite decades of research on the causes and course of cancers, this subset of disease encompassing over 110 distinct conditions continues to be largely an enigma that carries with it feelings of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unjustness.

Religion can help, hinder, or do nothing at all.

While thousands of miles away from one another, Black Americans and Japanese have overlap in their grieving methods.

Coping mechanisms come in a variety of forms.

The Great East Japan Earthquake was one thing, but the tsunami and nuclear meltdown following was what ended up hitting citizens hardest.

Hurricane Katrina wasn’t just physically destructive - it also destroyed social communities.

Natural and manmade disasters can cause profound trauma in the people who experience them or are otherwise affected by them.

It’s okay to not be death-positive.

Heading to North Carolina for family and phones.