PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 1 January 1971, pp. 159-160
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The Dying Child: The Management of the Child or Adolescent Who is Dying, by William M. Easson, M.D. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, 1970, 103 pp., $5.75

Richard Galdston M.D.1

1 Boston, Massachusetts

The death of a child is absurd. It makes no sense-not from any point of view. The author of a book about the dying child undertakes a particularly difficult task. There is very little to be said about death other than that it terminates life. There is a great deal to be said about living. It is hard enough to learn what the child, particularly the small child thinks and feels about anything, least of all the prospect of his own death.