This is a website for children, but even children have to face serious issues when talking about, or dealing with cancer (which breaks my heart).  So, I am choosing to post this page, copied from the adult website, on Canshare too.  I hope it helps open discussion between children and parents, together, after reading this, should you choose to read it, thank you, see below:

Well, I’ve been studiously avoiding this discussion on here.  I mean, this is a website created for jokes and laughter.  Because even though I can’t hear you laughing, I’m happy at the thought that I have made someone, somewhere LAUGH.  (And, a friend did message me that she showed this site to her cousin who was dealing with metastatic re-occurrence.  The cousin laughed and enjoyed this site days before passing away from her disease, and when I found out about her passing, I cried my eyes out like a little baby.  But, I realized my mission of creating laughter for someone when they needed it most was fulfilled.)

So, I just attended a cancer conference.  It was a brief, but intense, two days of “cancer immersion”.  Life and death matters come up frequently in discussion at a cancer conference.  On the plane ride home I was meditating, ruminating, thinking about, contemplating, and rolling around the ideas of life and death.  It is in our quiet moments that discovery is made, or as Oprah magazine calls it, “Your A-HA” moment.  I had an A-HA moment and this is what I am going to share with you, take it or leave it, since I can’t hear you cheer or scoff anyway.  LOL !!

Here it is:  When we are born into this world, we are brought into the light of this world from the darkness of the womb.  We are unaware of what to expect and it is a little shocking, probably, to be yanked out into completely new surroundings.  But, typically, there are people there who are anxiously and excitedly awaiting our arrival, these are our loved ones.  So, this is our birth into the physical world and all that it is to us.

Now, this is where I let you know that, without any doubt in my mind, heart, and soul, I believe in God (and in His Love for all of us) and I believe in Heaven (and I say prayers for people living and people who have passed on, all souls need to be remembered).  And, my A-HA moment was when I realized that death is, in my opinion, our “spiritual birth”.  Think about it, we are yanked out of a body again (our own, this time) and thrown into the light of the spiritual world, where, I truly believe, our loved ones are waiting around anxiously and excitedly for our arrival.  I have not had a “life after death” experience, I only “almost died” a couple of times.  But, reports from people who have “crossed over and come back to life” all say that they see and meet up with loved ones who have gone on before them into Heaven (spiritual world, the afterlife, think of the term that works for you).

Therefore, I am offering up my epiphany since, even though none of us want to die, because in our minds we’re sad about who we are leaving behind, and none of us wants to lose someone to death, because then we miss them, but if we remember that we will meet up again in Heaven, that this idea relieves some of the angst and sadness that seem to go hand in hand with thoughts about death in our minds.

I’m not writing this to say “don’t be sad, or angry, or grieved”, and nor do I have any knowledge as to why some of us die from cancer, and some of us don’t.  Just like if a tornado or hurricane hit and some of us died and some of us lived, all of that mystery is beyond my comprehension and understanding.  I’m just sharing these thoughts for the idea of Hope.  Because when we have Hope, which is more than just the idea that we will live through our cancer, Hope is the idea, the belief, that there is something more to this world than the dark corners that exist in it, the ones we have to sometimes journey through or witness.  Hope is remembering that there is Beauty, Power, Mercy, Light, Strength, Courage, Justice, Honesty, Trustworthiness, Wisdom, and Life beyond what we can “see” with our “eyes” but, instead, “feel” in our “hearts”.

Thank you for reading, if you made it to the end of this monologue, and I hope that I have given you a stronger sense of Hope by sharing my thoughts on Life and Death.

Sincerely,  Canshare

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