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When your child has a terminal diagnosis

My baby was born with a condition that means she will not live past childhood and I cannot stop myself from googling pictures of children's funerals.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

To love someone destined to die young is to live simultaneously in hope and hopelessness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Anticipatory grief — losing someone before they die?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.