We continue our ‘Start The Conversation’ series by talking about what it means to deal with the death of a child. We hear two personal stories: that of the Spellman family, who lost their daughter Abigail to lung disease, and that of the Abuanza family, whose son Adrian survived childhood cancer. We also speak with Megan O’Connell and Sara Stewart, who work as certified child life specialists at Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital, about how parents can approach conversations with terminally ill children.