When The Internet Isn't Awful: What You Can Learn From The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Messages From CaringBridge

The Internet can often feel like a cesspool of bad intentions, casual cruelty, and hopeless ignorance. Which is why a social networking site like CaringBridge, which allows sick people and their families to give their communities updates on their illnesses, gives us hope for humanity. The site has been around for more than 15 years, and CaringBridge CEO Sona Mehring has just released a new book called Hope Conquers All: Inspiring Stories of Love and Healing from CaringBridge. The book includes several of the most inspiring stories from the CaringBridge archives. Not all of the stories have Hollywood happy endings––which is to say, not every person featured overcame their illness––but there is something positive to glean from each tale of struggle and connection. Here are a few of the most enriching messages. Even Strangers Can Provide Solace A woman named Beth Keathley, who used CaringBridge to keep people in her life aware of her treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, said that a woman she didn't know had been writing in her CaringBridge guest book for a long time. Her brother had the same cancer as Keathley. This stranger wrote to Keathley to tell her the brother had died, "Yet he was alert to the end, surrounded by his family. She called it a good death."Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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