Two days after the death of their seven-year-old daughter Amy from untreated juvenile diabetes on September 30, 1986, Chris and Bill Hermanson stood before Chris’s employees and friends at the Sarasota Fine Arts Academy. Everything is going to be okay, Chris told the group. Later she told a friend, “Amy made a conscious decision to pass on. It was her choice, Amy’s choice.” Bill seemed equally untroubled by self-doubt about Amy’s death when, during his talk to the group, he stressed the positive aspects of the couple’s faith and offered Christian Science literature to anyone who wanted to understand