title: ["...And the light is fading..." The experience of a child with terminal cancer].
abstract: The child with a chance of dying faces death in a very peculiar way, because the hope that he or she managed to keep up to this moment changes with the impact of reality reactivating the first feelings of despair and pain for the separation of the loved ones. The main goal of this study is the attendance of a child in a terminal face, using as a path the phenomenological reference. Twelve attendances have been done with children in terminal faces, where they were able to express significant situations of their living process, and reveal with great intensity many fears, like the ones of dying, of being lonely, of leaving the ones they love, among others. Before this we see the necessity of worrying with matters interrelated to the feelings and emotions of these children who walk towards death, taking into consideration the possible means of help.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto-Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: do Valle
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*