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Tag: Death with Dignity
Kids Can Handle Big Decisions . . . If the Adults Get Out of the Way (But Also Don’t), a guest post by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
In Wreck, Tobin has a lot of choices to make—ones most high school juniors don’t generally make, thank goodness. She’s choosing what to do with her future, which is typical, but she also has to choose how to interact with her dad, Steve, who has ALS and frontotemporal dementia, and what to do about his request to possibly assist in his death.
Book Review: Wreck by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
A father with ALS asks his daughter to do the nearly unthinkable in this moving exploration of mortality, family, and impossibly difficult decisions.
Book Review: Dig by A. S. King, an important reflection on white privilege in YA literature
Publisher’s Book Description: Acclaimed master of the YA novel A. S. King’s eleventh book is a surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of an upper-middle-class white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family’s children pay to maintain the family name. The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, […]
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#SJYALit: Talking About the Right to Die with Dignity, a guest post by author Kelley York
Today as part of the #SJYALit Discussion, we are honored to present to you author Kelley York discussing the topic of euthanasia, or death with dignity. Around the beginning of the year 2000, I got stuck taking a speech and debate class in high school. Taking an anxiety-prone, self-conscious teenager and telling them to stand […]
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