Kit
Heritage Archive: Diagnosis Archive
Printable insert pages for the day everything changed, who you are beyond it, and what you want remembered
Preserve the person you were before diagnosis changed everything.
For the People living with serious diagnosis — cancer, chronic illness, neurological conditions — and the families who love them, who want to document the real story of this chapter before the specific details of who this person is get swallowed by the medical narrative
The Name It First Experience
A serious diagnosis has a way of replacing a person's full identity with a medical one. They become their illness. Their story becomes their treatment timeline. The Diagnosis Archive Kit gives people and their families structured prompts to document the full picture: who this person was before the diagnosis, what they have built and loved and survived in their life, who they are in the midst of this, and what they want the people who come after them to know. The output is a written archive — not a medical record, but a human one. Something that holds the whole person alongside the illness.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- Who were you before the diagnosis — your life, your work, what mattered to you?
- What has this chapter revealed about you that you hadn't seen before?
- Can you tell me who you are outside of the diagnosis — the full person, the things that have nothing to do with being sick?
- What do you want the people who come after you to know about who you were and how you lived?
Research basis
Narrative medicine (Charon) / illness narrative research (Frank) / legacy documentation in palliative care / identity preservation through documented story
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$14.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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