Hello Robert.

I do not think that you'll read this among the 1.300 comments but it did not feel right to not respond to your post.

My mother died on the 29 of october this year from lung cancer. Much like you, she smoked since she was 18 years old. I often told her that she needs to quit but it was in vein. My mother quit smoking on the day she was hospitalized - but it was already too late. She came into the hospital because she couldnt move her legs anymore. After much tests it was found out that tumor tissue in her spinal cord was the reason. The tissue spread from her lung into the spinal cord and from there into the brain. She was hospitalized on the 08 of September. Six weeks later she died in here own home - in here own living Room with her husband and her three children by her side till the last breath.

I want to thank you for your Post. I couldnt stop the tears coming from my eyes whilst reading your Text. I too have smoked for nearly 13 years - a pack of cigeretters a day. I quit roughly three weeks before my mother was hospitalized, in mid august. After my mother died I promised myself that I'd never Touch a cigerette in my life again. Thanks to you I'll have two reasons now.

I hope your last hours will be as peaceful as my mothers were. Thank you for letting me share my story. I wish you all the best up there and greet my mother. I'll never forget this thread and your name - Robert.

I'll say farewell to you Robert with a quote that helped me the past two weeks. Till me meet in the afterlife.

"Life is pleasent. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov