All,<br><br>My father-in-law was diagnosed 6 months ago with Stage III <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246221671_0">esophageal cancer</span>.
After one round of radiation and chemotherapy and unsuccessful surgery, he recently decided to
enter hospice. He's a retired psychology professor and
he's trying to gather as much information as possible about the process
of dying from the personal perspective of an agnostic or atheist. He's
most interested in finding agnostics and atheists facing death who are
blogging (or have blogged) about their experiences. I haven't had much
luck identifying blogs that fit this somewhat narrow parameter. <br><br>Most blogs seem to approach the process from the point of family or medical/hospice professionals - the voice of the one actually doing the dying is conspicuously absent. Moreover, there is a overwhelming focus on religion and spiritually in these blogs that does not fit well with a humanistic perspective. While Bob jokes " ... even atheists pray, but only in emergencies" his quest for other voices such as his own is very important (as I am sure you all can understand).<br>
<div class="uc-message"></div><br>He has
set up a blog<br><a href="http://agnosticsfacingdeath.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246221671_2">http://agnosticsfacingdeath.blogspot.com/</span></a><br>in the hopes he can start a conversation with others in similar circumstances.<br>
<br>If you have any suggestions for specific websites, blogs, search terms, etc., please email me off list.<br><br>-TED<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ted M. Coopman Ph.D.<br>Lecturer<br>Communication Studies<br>Television, Radio, Film & Theatre<br>
San Jose State University<br>