If you dont have an immediate family connection or extremely close relationship with the family youre better off just Googling the disease and prognosis.

What to say to someone with cancer that is dying. The best advice in this situation is to say how you feel. Cancer and terminal illness affect people deeply both the person suffering from it and their loved ones. Acknowledge that your friend or loved ones grieving has been ongoing and that it has now turned into a different kind of grief.

This is sometimes hard but there are things you can do to make it easier. Tracy also emphasizes the underestimated importance of humor in communicating with someone in hospice. I want to focus on him living.

Talk About Your Day In the face of cancer or another illness telling someone about how you burned the toast or about your cats antics might seem immaterial. Your friend or acquaintance has probably been suffering for a while. This blog post is from our new guide Beyond Im Sorry.

I dont want to think about my child dying. Here are a few more conversation starters. Are you thinking about them.

I spoke briefly about our philosophical views of death and dying. It has been said that hearing is the last sense to leave someone whos dying. I wish this wasnt happening to you.

They appreciate it when someone is willing to kid around with them. When someone dies from cancer it is often after a long illness. Here are some things that can be said to someone dying of cancer and things to keep in.