LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Superheroes do exist. A Marvel fan has reportedly been granted his wish to see Avengers: Endgame before he dies. The Australian man, who said he is facing liver cancer and bone marrow failure, posted his dying wish on Reddit Jan. 5. He feared he would die before the film is released in April. After his request went […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law this month a bill to evaluate the state’s health care resources for seriously and terminally ill patients. The new law establishes the state’s first Palliative Care and Quality of Life Study Committee, which is designed to offer insight about such care and provide […]
BY LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia – The deathbed letter from a 27-year-old Australian woman went viral – and warmed hearts across the globe. Holly Butcher died this month from Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that mainly affects the bones of young people. Nearing the end of her life, she […]
Palliative care is not a last resort, and it does not require a terminal diagnosis.
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Reporter Randi Belisomo became an unexpected caregiver after her husband, former WBEZ and CLTV reporter Carlos Hernandez Gomez, was diagnosed with colon cancer. The young couple talked about treatments and work, but not death. “We talked about all of those things, but we didn’t talk about the inevitable. When doctors told us that his cancer was […]