Illness, Death and Mourning at School

Illness, Death and Mourning at School

A practical guide on how to handle the subjects sensitively

• comprehensive information on how to deal with death at school
• demonstrates various ways to behave


More than 50,000 children and adolescents in Germany live with life-shortening illnesses. School staff often does not have the capacity or know-how to react in an appropriate way when one of their students is dying or has died. The book looks at the situation students with life-shortening illnesses find themselves in and describes ways to react to them in a correct and satisfactory way in everyday school life. It addresses the issue of how teachers should behave towards students in these situations and how to deal with their families. In addition, it illustrates the various shapes and forms a fitting mourning culture could take and has examples to demonstrate what a well-considered culture of remembrance could look like in school.


Target group
Teachers at all types of school and school classes