ABSTRACT
This chapter spotlights the role of religion in the impending death of young children. At the center of the ethics controversy is whether parents should comply with their dying child’s request to die. In other words, should young children have a say in making their own end-of-life decisions? Regardless, given the certainty of their young child’s imminent death, how might parents broach the subject of death to their child with a terminal disease? What should they say? What should they not say? Embroiled in the controversy is whether parents should impart to their dying child the notion of heaven or another blissful afterlife.
