The sky can wait

On Swedish television there is a documentary series at the moment called The Sky can wait which portrays five people who have been given a diagnosis with a deadly outcome. For instance, one man of 42 has MND -motor neuron disease- and one 31 year old woman has breast cancer that has spread. This documentary is very positive I have to say. First I was a little afraid to watch the programme as this is difficult to take in but it is very important to let oneself think of death sometime, one's own and others. Yesterday the programme had the title "everything is as usual, nothing is as usual". Many of the people in the programme have children and one of the women has been ill since her son was six months. How do you handle a thing like that? She said on the programme that she often felt tired and sad but that she did not want to show it and that she did not know if she was going to watch her son grow up... how hard! I have to say that Swedish television is doing a good job showing what is is like to be given a diagnosis and yet continue living with great hope and courage and defy the state of ill health. (photo: www.charlotteaberg.com)