Last Moments

The Sacramento Bee has published the 2007 Photography Pulitzer Prize Series: the last moments of a child with terminal cancer.

Link via Over!My!Med!Body:

"Be Prepared With Tissues" … was the only warning our classmate gave when he just sent this out to our class listserv. I had no idea I could be so moved to tears within the span of about 2 minutes."

Being a doctor sometimes feels like the most difficult job in the world.

Related:
The Guardian: A sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study, 03/2008.