terminally ill children

A collection of articles describing personal accounts of experienced educators and the ways they have creatively discussed death and dying with their students.

Emily Rapp, the mother of a child diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder, shares her efforts to make sense of her family's situation through art, literature, philosophy, theology, and myth and re-examines fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent, to be a success, and to live a meaningful life.

A thirteen-year-old girl is devastated when she is diagnosed with leukemia but meets a new best friend while at the hospital for chemotherapy.

When Mitsuki's alter ego, Fullmoon, gets a new producer, Mitsuki is shocked to learn it is the doctor who is treating her cancer, and hopes he will not blow her cover and reveal her secret.

Chapters include information on house calls; the use of drawings made at significant times in one's life; patient care; and the issue of sudden death.

A father tells of his daughter, born with cystic fibrosis.

Home from Jenny House, Chelsea awaits a heart transplant and becomes best friends with Jillian, who is waiting for a heart and lung donor. When one heart becomes available, the two friends find that they are both candidates for the heart.