'Illness Blogging' becoming Popular for Terminally Ill Patients

Eva Markvoort wasn't the only terminally ill patient to blog her experience on life with a crippling and life threatening disease. 

Recently Susannah Breslin, an award winning blogger, author, and freelance journalist was just diagnosed with breast cancer. She shared her story on her Forbes blog yesterday about how the doctor told her the bad news over the phone while she was sitting on 50 pound bags of dog food in Costco. 

Illness blogging seems to be a great way for people to get things off their chest. However, at the end of the battle, as penmachine blogger Derek Miller, diagnosed with stage four metastatic colorectal cancer says, his blog went from active to archived. He blogged his death while he was still alive and had his family and friends publish his last post.