Some Thoughts For The Soon To Be Bereaved (Or Their Loved Ones)
Nov 8 · 6 min read

My mother, Lindy Hayward, died almost two years ago.
She had first been diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer in 2014. I was unsure at the time what this meant, and was purposefully staying away from the internet. A few weeks later I was driving with my eldest brother who relayed the particulars of her case: a 40% survival rate on two years; a 4%…

