ABSTRACT
Give Sorrow Words gives an overview of children’s attitudes toward death and considers the moral and ethical issues raised by treatments for life-threatening illnesses in children. In this new edition, available for the first time in the United States, Dorothy Judd draws on her increasing experiences with dying children and their parents to refine and clarify her work as presented in the earlier edition. This book helps readers to make sense out of the irreconcilable tension of embracing death as a part of life and accepting the death of a child. Through her work with Robert, a young boy dying of acute myeloblastic leukemia, Judd helps readers to see anew the need to reconcile the two tensions and to make the necessary decisions for medical care.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |92 pages
Framework
chapter |14 pages
The death of a child
chapter |12 pages
Children's attitudes to death
chapter |8 pages
The dying child's awareness of death
chapter |21 pages
Should we talk to children about death?
chapter |16 pages
The stages of emotional reactions to life-threatening illness
chapter |19 pages
Support available
part |76 pages
Robert, aged 7-and-a-half
chapter |67 pages
Diary of my work with Robert over 3 months
chapter |3 pages
Postscript
chapter |4 pages
Brief retrospective analysis
part |37 pages
Survival or death