In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
My mom died when I was 11 years old.
My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I didn't do that much in Chicago after that. I actually sat around and didn't do anything for three years. I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore because my everything was gone. I was a mama's boy, and I had to turn into a man real quick.
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
My mom died when I was 8.
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.