Write a Memoir and Include Memories of Your Best and Worst Times

• 1. What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?

  2. Do you recall any incidents or issues in your adult life that have made a significant impact on you? (accidents, hospitalization, moving, separation from a friend, divorce, remarriage, becoming a grandparent, sexuality, aging, career changes, death, or illness)

  3. How have health issues affected your life? Describe your illness.

  4. Do you think about dying?

  5. Are you scared?

  6. How do you imagine your death?

  7. Do you believe in an after-life?

  8. Do you regret anything?

  9. Do you look at your life differently now than before you were diagnosed?

  10. Do you have any last wishes?

  11. If you were to give advice to others, what would it be?

  12. What have you learned from life? The most important things?

  13. Has this illness changed you? What have you learned?

  14. How do you want to be remembered?