Our friend group from college has been supporting one of us through stage 4 cancer for the past year, but some people have pulled back as her condition has worsened and the rest of us are feeling angry and abandoned while trying to show up for her final weeks.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community is fracturing under the sustained weight of anticipatory grief, with different capacities for proximity to death creating judgment and abandonment.
“Where Are You with Palliative care and comfort medicine?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.