terminally ill

All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette's in check and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It" and sets out to have some fun.

Having been diagnosed as a terminal cancer patient, Hazel is running out of time. When she meets Augustus Waters at the Cancer Kid Support Group, her life takes an unexpected turn.

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.

Offers information designed to help people living with a serious chronic illness which will eventually cause death, providing insight into how a person might think about the last phase of life, and discussing practical issues such as planning, handling symptoms, stopping treatments, and others.

Argues that dying patients and their families have unique and equally valid ways of spending the final moments before death, and describes various ways in which people spend their last days, offering options for those facing this decision.

With the help of a terminally ill friend, eleventh-grader Jamie begins to question the values of some of his fellow students who seem to specialize in ridicule.

A child recounts his special relationships with his grandfather and the difficulty of coping with his death from cancer.