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How to choose a guardian for your child when you're dying

I am a single mother and was just diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer and I need to choose who will raise my eight-year-old son and no option feels right.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The terminally ill parent faces the impossible task of selecting someone else to love their child.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mortality as teacher — death as clarifying force?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.