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Death & illness

Diabetes Research Institute

• Diabetes and Kids
  
  
  

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Talking to Kids About Mental Illnesses
  
  
  

Ele's Place

• Explaining Suicide to Children
  
  
  

Lance Armstrong Foundation

• LIVESTRONG AT SCHOOL - Questions and Answers about Cancer
  
  
  

Sallie Sanborn, MS

• Why do people die from cancer?
  
  
  
• Do people who die ever come back?
  
  
  
• What is a funeral?
  
  
  
• Discussing Death With Children
  
  
  
• What does dead mean?
  
  
  
• Why do people and animals die?
  
  
  
• Where do we go when we die?
  
  
  

Sammy Mack

• What is HIV/AIDS?
  
  
  
• What is a heart attack?
  
  
  
• What is breast cancer?
  
  
  
• What is a stroke?