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Living with DyingArrow
Age 61-70
Interview 02  

Interview 02

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 59
Background: Divorced, accounts manager (retired), 4 children
Brief outline:Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, lumpectomy, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy


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She can't accept that she is dying and feels angry and upset that she will die before her mother.

 



I am angry and I can't accept it and that's nothing at all to do with the staff at the hospital or anything it's just life isn't it? 

I'm not a particularly religious person and so I don't find... I don't really have a sort of strong faith to hold me up. 

I think probably my attitude at the moment would be anyway, “How could God love me if you know he's made this happen to me?” And, “Why should, why should this be me? Why me?” That must be the question that everybody that's younger must ask. We expect to live until we are in our 80's or even 90's and the thought I'm going to pre-decease my mother is not a good one.

Just comes back to the fact of not being able to accept the fact that I'm dying, just can't accept it. I'm too young. I'm not ready to go. I've got all these lovely babies and it's just not fair but then you know nobody ever said life was going to be fair, I know.
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