Cancer insists on its own time. If you try to defy it, it can break you, physically and spiritually.

Authorities in Georgia and Maryland have arrested four people after a sting operation targeting a group which offers assistance to people who want to commit suicide.
The arrests were made after agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation set up a sting operation Wednesday at a home in Dawson County, north of Atlanta, where an undercover agent posed as a member of the Final Exit Network suffering from pancreatic cancer who wanted to commit suicide.

It has become a beloved ritual at Dana-Farber: Every day, children who come to the clinic write their names on sheets of paper and tape them to the windows of the walkway for ironworkers to see. And, every day, the ironworkers paint the names onto I-beams and hoist them into place as they add floors to the new 14-story Yawkey Center for Cancer Care.

Jack Tweed has reportedly asked Jade Goody to be his wife after learning that the star has just months to live.

My colleague Corey Kilgannon recently profiled Ms. Volkening’s artistic journey through cancer. She began sketching in the hospital about 18 months ago. Ms. Volkening has stopped medical treatment, after being told that it would give her some more time but leave her too weak to paint.

All terminal patients need to be reminded that while there is life, there is more than hope alone.

A Mayo Clinic chaplain offers her advice on supporting and comforting a loved one with a terminal illness.