I read the headline and avoided the story... too sad :-(
A child says, mummy, I'm sorry that I'm making you sad. It would be better if I died.
Yes, it's sad that a child is dying. But children are sick, they die, all day, every day.
We, adults, do our best but our best is nowhere near enough.
Yes, the children know that they are suffering. They know that their parents suffer on the child's behalf.
But... watch Operation Ouch.
Some children lives lives that, to others and probably to themselves, are, well, the absolute pits.
Yet they get on with it. As best they can. They get on with it. Because they have no choice, no control over their own lives. Perhaps because they believe that... well... that's life.
How the Hell did this kid decide... or how was he allowed to even consider... that his own life was not worth living -- because it was destroying his mother's happiness.
I don't know, I can't really express what I feel.
But to me... that was the absolute saddest headline of the entire Telethon weekend.
... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands
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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
half blind, half deaf, dying of cancer,
So what.
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