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Death, much like sex, is a topic that adults find hard to discuss among themselves let alone with their children). The conversation may be painful for both parties and there is a natural desire to protect children from harm. This ignores the fact that death is an integral part of childhood and that a failure to have an open conversation about childhood mortality can lead to significant misunderstandings at both an individual and societal levels.
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Murphy, D. (2016). Paediatric Palliative Care. In: Carachi, R., Grosfeld, J. (eds) The Surgery of Childhood Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48590-3_40
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