Dealing with shock death of mum

My mum passed away at the age of 51 with cancer that had spread through out her body. We all (including mum) didn't find out she had cancer until 9 hours before she died in hospital after collapsing at home that morning. She had been ill a few months but had been lying to us saying she had been to the drs/hospital but in fact had never made contact - we don't know why but have ideas. Everything is so confused and I'm searching for answers that I can never know as to why she lied etc and dealing with losing my mum and dealing with her affairs. 

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  • Hi Kel,

    Firstly I want to say how sorry I am for you losing your Mum to Cancer, it is so sad for you and hard to come to terms with especially not knowing so having no time to process things. 
     

    I lost my dad to Brain Cancer in September, and although he and we knew his prognosis he did everything he could even at the end to protect me, my sisters and my Mum. He would always say he was fine although he wasn't, he would always say he wasn't worried although it was obvious he was, he was so brave the whole way through it and all he wanted to do was not upset us. It was his way of coping, he never mentioned his illness he actually wanted us to keep t it a secret because if he talked about it it became real.  
    I wonder whether your Mum kept it to herself because she wanted to protect you from the sadness and she might not of been able to admit it because she didn't want it to be true.

    I may not be any help but I just want to say I am sorry for your loss it's completely heart braking xx
     

     

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  • Hi Kel,

    Firstly I want to say how sorry I am for you losing your Mum to Cancer, it is so sad for you and hard to come to terms with especially not knowing so having no time to process things. 
     

    I lost my dad to Brain Cancer in September, and although he and we knew his prognosis he did everything he could even at the end to protect me, my sisters and my Mum. He would always say he was fine although he wasn't, he would always say he wasn't worried although it was obvious he was, he was so brave the whole way through it and all he wanted to do was not upset us. It was his way of coping, he never mentioned his illness he actually wanted us to keep t it a secret because if he talked about it it became real.  
    I wonder whether your Mum kept it to herself because she wanted to protect you from the sadness and she might not of been able to admit it because she didn't want it to be true.

    I may not be any help but I just want to say I am sorry for your loss it's completely heart braking xx
     

     

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