RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 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 JF Pediatrics JO Pediatrics FD American Academy of Pediatrics SP 159 OP 160 VO 47 IS 1 A1 Galdston, Richard YR 1971 UL http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/47/1/159.3.abstract AB 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.