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Denise Deakin from Ratby in Leicestershire was diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago.

She's 42-years-old and has an eight-year-old son called Jack.

Since she first became ill she and her husband, Nick, have always been honest with him about her illness.

She's now trying to find ways to prepare her son for the future when she might not be around.

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Denise says that she and Nick decided not to tell Jack that she's eventually going to die as they think he's too young.

However, when he does ask, they think it's important to tell him the truth.

At the moment though, Denise wants to keep things as normal as possible for Jack:

"It's really important that however difficult it is to be at those sort of occasions, and it is - sometimes when I see him at Beavers, I'm so proud of him - but I think it's so important that I'm there for him while I can be and he experiences normality.

Denise is trying to find ways to help Jack cope in the future when she might not be there anymore.

She was inspired by a television programme called 'The Mummy Diaries', where mum's in similar positions to her made photo albums, memory boxes and books for their children for when they died.

She's now making her own mummy diary for Jack and says the programme had a deep affect on her:

"It was very difficult to watch, it was really very poignant. My husband found it very very difficult, more difficult than I did really.

"But I think, putting that aside, it was useful to see how the families, and the children especially, were prepared.

"All the useful tips like the diaries, the cards, the cards that they had at the funeral, the letters and all the things that were done to actually prepare the children for their mother's deaths.

"The most difficult thing I think is just to think, 'right I need to start, I need to get on with these things while I'm feeling so well, and I think that's the biggest hurdle."