This picture. It’s all I have of my daughter who died. Stacey Skrysak, pictured here with her husband and now-deceased daughter was criticized by commenters for smiling as she held her dying child.

When a child briefly died during a medical emergency, no one expected what she would describe after being revived. She spoke calmly about energy, creation, and how everything in our world is connected ...

What should you say to your child about death and dying? Of course, that will depend on the child’s age and the parent’s values, but the following might be useful. How to Tackle Common Conversations ...

Some readers are fed up with me! “Don’t guilt trip me” is a refrain I heard from many readers of my recent columns from West Africa and South Sudan about children dying because of cuts in American ...

It’s nearly Halloween. But while most of us are planning our costumes and researching the horror movies we’ll watch, one story is going viral on social media. In 2021, 5-year-old Declan, who was ...

In the spring of 2022, Canadian teenager Markus Schouten’s dying wish was that no child should be forced to choose between life and death. Markus had just learned he was about to die. His oncologist ...

In public health, people often label some topics as "too controversial" to touch and dismiss others as "too political" or "too complicated." But the survival of children in conflict zones should never ...