‘Am I going to die, Mum?’

What, when you know he has a terminal illness, do you tell your eight-year-old son when he asks if he is going to die?

Paula Naughton has three boys, one aged eight and the others identical twins, who are all going to die of the same deadly disease.

Archie, aged 8, asked her as they lay on a bed together after having blood tests: “Mummy, am I going to die?”