What happens to the rest of the Family while one member suffers from Cancer? Interesting question as all the focus is usually placed on the patient. The family live with the shock when first informed about the patients illness and then start dealing with the realization in their own way. It is one thing that a family need to live with the shock of cancer that can still be treated and it is a totally different issue that another family need to deal with when the patient is terminal. 
In my case the patient is terminal. The detection of the prostate cancer came to late and there is nothing that the medical doctors can do for him. What now? The family deal with this realization a day at a time and spend more time with the patient when practically possible. But the patient realize that nobody in the family want to upset the patient at any time and that is where the trouble can start. The patient knowing that his/her time is limited and the family know that the time is coming closer, start do do things that is out of their normal ways. They might become more verbally abusive because they deal with their own mortality and knowing that the family will blame the behavior on the effect the cancer has on the patient.  Every body try to please the patient by allowing things that would normally not be accepted to go by as nobody want to upset the patient.
With the realization of their mortality, some patients would ask God why them, and other would curse God for letting this happen to them. Yet the family need to deal with the patient and their planning to get every thing in order before the cancer make them immobile and unable to do the things that they still would like to get done. To be Continued.........