A dear friend found humor to be a mainstay of her last days with cancer.

How to deal with a friend who has terminal cancer. This is why I sought out a support group for families and friends. The best way to comfort a friend through cancer is to be supportive hopeful and positive. Here people who address this reality every day whether theyre psychologists chaplains or cancer patients share advice on what helps and what doesnt.

Providing emotional support The diagnosis of a terminal illness may be a crisis for family and friends. They may want to join a support group or speak to a counsellor. Cancer patients and caregivers are still people and they want to see you talk to you and laugh with you.

But cancers like leukemia lymphoma and myeloma can be treated with bone marrow transplants. The most important thing you can do is. You cannot prepare for her death and you wouldnt be doing so if she didnt have cancer but any friend might be killed in an accident and you would not be able to prepare for that.

Its a minimally invasive procedure that can save a life. How everyone responds may depend on their relationship with the person dying and their own beliefs about death. She asked friends to email her funny sayings and quotations to send funny cards and bring her funny videos to watch.

I remind her how much she means to me how proud I am of her strength faith. We asked people who have been through it themselvessometimes on. Some ways caregivers can provide comfort to a person with these worries are listed below.

Talk watch movies read or just be with him or her. My husband who has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer has become angry and bitter to the point that he seems to be taking it out on me. It is natural to feel shocked angry scared sad or relieved or a combination of these emotions.