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Cancer & grief

Below are the best resources we could find on Cancer and grief.

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Life After Diagnosis | Kay Redfield Jamison | Big Think

Kay Redfield Jamison discusses how she and her late husband found profound delight in his final years as well as the commanding power of the grieving process.

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan

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Emotional Complications of Breast Cancer by Janet Harrison. (Especially Anger, Distress, and Asking for Help.)

Janet talks about feeling angry, feeling lost in the system, feeling isolated after initial treatment. Janet mentions benefits of psycho-oncology team (psychosocial care), voluntary services at Coping with Cancer (Helen Webb House) and also contacting Samaritans when desperate.

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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler wrote the classic On Grief and Grieving, introducing the stages of grief with the same transformative pragmatism and compassion.

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Emotions and Coping as You Near the End of Life

This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.

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Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss

When former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts’ husband, State Senator Frank Roberts, was dying from lung cancer, she had to look inside of herself as well as beyond herself to find ways to survive what felt unbearable.

Barbara K. Roberts

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Whatz It Feel Like: Losing Your Child to Cancer

Jon describes the day he learned his son Jonny had a brain tumor. He explains the torture of watching Jonny fight to live and what the grieving process has been like since Jonny died on Christmas Eve 2015.

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Grief and the Cancer Caregiver

Becoming a cancer caregiver will change your life in many ways, and your loss could be profound. Learning how to cope with the grieving process will help.

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We Don’t “Move On” from Grief. We Move Forward with It | Nora McInerny

In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will, let's face it, affect us all, is as liberating as it is gut-wrenching.

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