We’re the first DAILY online advice column for both the terminally ill, and their friends and relatives. Every weekday your questions about dying — how it affects you, how to deal with it — will be answered.
You do NOT have to give your real name. You will have complete confidentiality. To ask any question about [...]
Dear Judy,
I really felt vindicated yesterday when I saw how you replied to an email from a reader who was against burying a terminally ill gay friend in the family vault.
I’m openly gay, and so is my best friend. Like the guy you wrote about yesterday, he too has HIV/AIDS, only his partner left him, and he’s [...]
Dear Judy,
My 37-year-old son says I should listen to you, which is why I’m writing. He is our only son and he is gay. For the last decade he’s been living with the man he calls his “partner.” This partner is 49, and fooled around a lot with a lot of men, mostly before he [...]
Dear Judy,
I travel a lot on business for a hedge fund company (yes, I know. No jokes please). Almost 3 months ago, one of our partners collapsed and died practically right away. Massive coronary.
We were in Hong Kong. There was lots of red tape. I got the body embalmed, paid for that, the coffin (the [...]
Dear Judy
I work in a fairly small office. One of our gals just had a baby, she’s thrilled. Another just had a very late-term miscarriage — in fact labor had to be induced, so the worst of it was the mother knew she would be “giving birth” to a stilborn baby.
Our issue here at the office is awful. [...]
Dear Judy,
I read the email from the woman whose boyfriend was killed in a car accident when his sister was driving — it’s the only thing that gives me the guts to write you right now.
I’m living with guilt day and night and it doesn’t stop for a second. I killed a pedestrian 2 years ago. I [...]
Dear Judy,
I am a five year lung cancer survivor looking for a way to help lung cancer victims get over the stigma of the “they-did-it-to-themselves” attitude from the general public. Nobody should judge anyone’s lifestyle and it seems that everyone does something in their life that they shouldn’t.
So how can I convey to people who suggest [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009