BY DANIEL GAITAN daniel@lifemattersmedia.org An Illinois police department is observing No-Shave November by raising funds for a hospice that cared for one of their own. Officer Mark Dahlem died February 5 while receiving comfort care at JourneyCare in Barrington from complications associated with brain cancer. Dahlem, 48, served the nearby Palatine Police Department for more […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Former President Jimmy Carter said his faith in God helped him become “completely at ease with death” while facing cancer. “I assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly,” said Carter, referring to a brain cancer diagnosis in 2015, during a Sunday school service at Maranatha Baptist Church in […]
BY CRAIG KLUGMAN, Ph.D. The film, “The Farewell” claims to be a movie “based on an actual lie.” Billi is a first generation Chinese-American twenty-something artist living in New York near her parents. After not being awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (a fact she hides from her family), she learns that her parents are heading back […]
A Story Of Hope In The Darkness LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Kimberly Dahlem never expected a series of headaches to change her family’s future. The week before Thanksgiving in 2017, her husband, Mark Dahlem, began complaining of excruciating headaches. “We thought it was just the hustle and bustle about the holiday,” Kimberly, 46, told Life Matters […]
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 […]