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[quote=Anonymous]Tell him "Aunt Nancy might look very different than the last time you saw her. She may be bald from her chemo, and sometimes people with cancer take medicine that makes them fat or skinny. If you have to cry, just turn around and walk right out. She needs our love and strength right now, not our pity and tears. We can cry all the way home if we need to." That's basically what my mom told me when we went to visit her old best friend dying of diabetes, and when we visited my great-grandma when she was dying. You don't have to tell him "She's dying." if you can't say that out loud. You can say "I don't think she's going to recover from this" and answer "yes" if he flat out asks if she's going to die. Also, give him things he can tell/ask her. People often don't know what to say to someone very sick. [/quote]
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