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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 15:43:12 -0700
From: Richard Childers <fscked@sbcglobal.net>
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Alan,

I actually prefer email to texting - I like full sentences, 
capitalization, punctuation, etc.

I just picked up my phone to see if I'd missed any commuiques, and saw 
that you had texted me this morning, probably when I was busy barking 
orders at everyone (else) to brush their teeth, comb their hair, finish 
their breakfast, etc.

My apologies for not responding sooner.

Some of the content of your texts was lost - as if a few letters or 
words were lost between each text - but the gist is clear, and, yes, I 
agree, the process of dying can involve a lot of angst.

I don't have a lot of practical experience with dying people, before the 
big event.

But I do know there is a huge body of knowledge related to dealing, 
practically, with the process of death, collected these past few hundred 
years, by people in both the Eastern and the Western hemispheres:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_anxiety_(psychology)

Probably the most useful thing to study would be the stages of grief:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stages_of_grief

Note that the fife stages of grief apply to everyone, even the one whom 
is dying - "The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression 
and acceptance." - and so, according to this model, Gwen is at stage 2.

What sort of cancer therapy is she undertaking?

I did some research and, YES, breast cancer is one of the cancers 
treated by CBD therapy.

Why isn't she consuming 5 mg of CBD daily?

I'd think it would be easy to acquire, especially if one has a family 
member in the business - as she has suggested, previously.

Perhaps there is some way to channel that anger into something more 
constructive than verbal and physical abuse. Painting? Writing?

If you could secure a source for medicated brownies, perhaps that would 
address both therapeutic issues and impose a degree of tranquility as 
well - er, uh, so I have heard, that is - just thinking outside the box, 
here.

Keep me posted - I generally respond fairly quickly to email from people 
I know, at least, when it is about topics that don't distress me, 
personally.


If there is not a professional organization, locally, that helps people 
deal with preparing to die - from cancer, or whatever - there should be. 
Maybe we should start one. There are a lot of elderly people in Humboldt 
County.


Regards,

~richard