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 […]
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 […]