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(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Nothing so alters a person as learning you have a terminal illness.<\/p>\n

Ronni Bennett, who writes a popular\u00a0blog about aging, discovered that recently when she heard that cancer had metastasized to her lungs and her peritoneum (a membrane that lines the cavity of the abdomen).<\/p>\n

There is no cure for your condition, Bennett was told by doctors, who estimated she might have six to eight months of good health before symptoms began to appear.<\/p>\n

Right then and there, this 77-year-old resolved to start doing things differently \u2014 something many people might be inclined to do in a similar situation. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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