After we have been diagnosed with cancer, our lives will never be the same again. But we need to try to just perform one little service – a phone call, a card, an email to encourage others. The wonderful thing is with or without cancer, we may just live a little bit longer with joy!
PUBLISHED August 31, 2018
Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.
She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
An astounding recent study just emerged at the Ohio State University, and more research on this topic is certain to follow. The authors determined that people who go to church (any church or temple) and/or volunteer tend to live up to four to six months longer.She has myelodysplastic syndrome, which is rare, and would love to communicate with others who have MDS.
The article offers the caveat that marital status and other factors such as gender and not smoking or drinking in excess are also factors in living longer. But the volunteering was very important. I pondered this I realized almost every single religion ranging from Far East religions, to Catholicism, to Protestantism to Judaism preach doing for other people. Volunteers at these churches and temples do an astounding number of services such as running soup kitchens, providing for backpack programs, donating clothing and stocking food cupboards. These church and temple congregations often become family, and people who are members visit each other in the hospital and nursing homes, send cards and bring food when one is ill.
Certainly, one doesn’t have to belong to a certain church or adhere to a specific faith to help others, and I know many people who don’t attend church and do fantastic works. But for me personally, belonging to a church reminds me to do for others; some people don’t want or need that reminder.
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