Children aren’t supposed to die - Sue Boucher

Author: Sue Boucher      01 November 2013    https://www.facebook.com/ICPCN 

Report back: Dr Mary Ellen Macdonald's presentation at the first CHPCA Pediatric Palliative Care Satellite Symposium gave delegates much food for thought on current trends in thinking about child death.

...the death of a child should be considered not as a 'trauma' but rather as a 'tragedy'. People are expected to eventually recover from a trauma but not necessarily from a tragedy, which requires a time of 'dwelling in sorrow' and accompaniment. 

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