Dying Wish: Is this sweet or morbid?
 

I found this article about a terminally ill 17 year old who, through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, is realizing her dream of having a fancy wedding...

http://www.cleveland.com/lake/plaind...510.xml&coll=2

I feel so horrible because I want to be able to say, "That's so sweet!" but to tell you the truth, reading the article gave me the heebie jeebies.

How nice of them to grant this dying girl's wish, it brought tears to my eyes.

Why am I having flashbacks of "A Walk to Remember"?

Why Morbid?

A dying child and The Wish Foundation give people good times before they Die!

Yes Die!

Not sure that would be mine at all for sure!

Exactly what I was thinking.

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That article about broke my heart. I think it's sweet.

Since her mother is a single mother, this will be a great memory for her too, as that is one of the huge regrets a mother has when they lose a daughter or a son, that they never get to see them married or have a child.

Even though she won't really be married, considering the insurance issue, they have come up with a great alternative.

Me, too.

Honestly, I think it's incredibly sad that this is the wish of a 17-year-old, and I'm kind of creeped out by the whole thing -- while recognizing that my opinion doesn't mean a damn thing to her or her family. But WTF, for real.

I'm with you, sister. It makes me think of 14 year olds in rural Utah being married off or something.

It's very nice that the girl got what she wanted - honestly, I can't imagine being in a situation where death was imminent, and I can't even begin to imagine what my first choices would be in that case.

When I was working in the hospital system in Boston, I heard a full range of requests from kids at Dana Farber who were chosen by Make-A-Wish. Because of that, her choice doesn't surprise me in the least.

It's nice to see that she got what may be one of her last happy moments.

I vote with the heebie jeebie contingent.

I'm crackin' up 'cuz you sed "heebie jeebies" about a wedding...

I wonder . . . if a boy made a wish to have sex with a woman before he died, would the Foundation send him to Nevada? Well why not?