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Cancer Support

angstlessk

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7. It was how ants and bees will easily give their lives for their nest mates

Reply to Tab (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:40 PM

Mar 2016

because of the genetics...and that it is genes that matter not the body.

I thought about how I was the result of every ancestor who did not die before they gave birth, for millennia...how lucky was I to even exist? And my genes will live on, through my son, my parents, their brothers, sisters and all their children.

That somehow gave me peace.

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The End of Life Issues forum is now officially up [View all] Tab Mar 2016 OP

I hope your baby thrives. There's many with loved ones transitioning. alfredo Mar 2016 #1

Good going, Tab. sinkingfeeling Mar 2016 #2

As much as the Cancer Support Group is scary angstlessk Mar 2016 #3

It's scary because we know so little about it (or talk so little about it) Tab Mar 2016 #4

The only thing I can contribute is when I BELIEVED I was dying angstlessk Mar 2016 #5

That helps; you run a lot of your priorities and life through your brain Tab Mar 2016 #6

It was how ants and bees will easily give their lives for their nest mates angstlessk Mar 2016 #7

That's a nice way to think about it Tab Mar 2016 #8

Tab, will you let me post this as a stand alone post? angstlessk Mar 2016 #9