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[quote=Anonymous]OP I agree that you should have already told him. It's not too late to tell him before you visit, and I hope you will. My experience is with younger children, so take it for what it's worth. Confusion and distress comes from two assumptions being shattered: first, people who die are very old - grandparents or great-grandparents for example - people who have lived a long and happy life. Second, doctors cure people - they are smart and caring, and always able to use medicine and surgery to make people better. Your sister-in-law's experience flies in the face of both. You don't need to go into the details of cancer treatment unless it would interest your son, but you can talk very briefly about what the doctors tried, how both the cancer and the treatment is affecting the way she looks, why the doctors decided to end treatment, and what palliative care means. [/quote]
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