num_pages: 130
description: Say your mother is in a coma. Say she got that way trying to kill herself. Would it be such a bad thing to help her die?In "Walking on Glass" a young man relives the events that have shattered his life and left him wondering: Would it be murder or mercy to turn off the machines keeping his mother alive?The Terri Schiavo case made everyone painfully aware of the moral dilemmas created by advances in medical technology. The line between life and death is no longer as clear as it once was, and families are often faced with agonizing end-of-life decisions. Alma Fullerton's free-verse novel intimately explores this controversial issue, and the results are riveting.
language: English
title: Walking on Glass
titlecomplete: Walking on Glass
genres: Teen, Fiction, Young Adult, Death, Poetry, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 343
publisher: HarperTempest