Cancer in Children, Concept of Death and Grief

Abstract

The number of children and adults with chronic diseases is increasing in many countries. Each year more than 6 million people in the world to be diagnosed with cancer and more than 4 million of them die. Despite advancing technology and methods of treatment of disease, exacerbations in children with cancer are more frequent and have more longer stages, the disease progresses, children are increasing fears and anxieties about death. Children; may live grief because of their parents', brothers' or their deadly disease. View of grief and the results varies depending on the development of related concepts of the child's death. Aim of this paper is to revise the development of concept of death, the process of greif and approaches to be applied in the process of death.