terminally ill

In Japan, teenaged Abe Sora, who is afflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease, finds friends online and elicits their help to end his suffering.

When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.

"Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital."--Provided by publisher.

When thirteen-year-old Linda learns she has a life-threatening heart condition, she determines to complete a list of all the things she and her best friend wish to do. However, when Linda meets a mysterious boy named Zak, her life takes an unexpected turn.

"Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones"--OCLC.

Seasoned, respected Boston police officer Joe O'Brien discovers that he has Huntington's disease and that each of his four adult children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting it, and as they watch the disease progress in their father, the children must find the courage to live with a life at risk or to learn their fate.

Two teenagers with a deadly disease fall in love on the brink of a cure.

Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle a dangerously advanced artificial intelligence program bent on destroying humanity.

Two teens, Suthy and Sylvie, are confined to a hospice due to their terminal cancer. As they try to make what little time they have left more interesting, they encounter resistance from their families and struggle to determine how they can live their lives when they are regimented by daily rules.