The boy on the photo, David Vetter, was the second son of the couple David Joseph Vetter Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter who had already daughter Katherine. Their first son was born with a defective thymus, a gland which is important in the functioning of the immune system, due to a genetic condition, SCID. Several weeks after he died. Doctors said that every other son of David Joseph and Carol Ann Vetter had 50% to be born with the same condition. They proposed them to place their next child in a sterile isolator until they could perform an operation of a bone marrow transplant. Katherine was supposed to be a donor. David’s parents most of all desired to have a boy to carry their family name.
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Peanut 14 year s ago
Why do parents bring children into the world when there is such a huge risk of them suffering and then dying at a young age? How can they be so selfish? Cystic fibrosis is one of the worst genetic diseases. One seventeen yr old stated it was like trying to breathe through a straw. His parents knew they both carried the gene, and yet they still went ahead and had a kid, knowing their child will die by suffocation, or his lungs will hemorrhage and he will bleed to death. It was disgusting. In one generation, the world could be rid of some of the most horrible diseases, if people with defective genes would just quit breeding.
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nebula 14 year s ago
Couldn't agree more peanut but unfortunately the world we live in is over run by religious fanatic that preventing important medical research to be done and frown upon abortions or pregnancy terminations...
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Downstrike 10 year s ago
Come on people, give the family and doctors a break! No one in 1971 realized what this boy's life was going to be like. It had never been done before.
Meanwhile, religion has nothing to do with parents' desire to preserve the lives of their children, or doctors' fulfilment of their Hippocratic Oath to preserve life. Antitheistic fanatics who are parents or doctors are just as apt to react that way, as religious fanatics. You're human too, you know.
Meanwhile, religion has nothing to do with parents' desire to preserve the lives of their children, or doctors' fulfilment of their Hippocratic Oath to preserve life. Antitheistic fanatics who are parents or doctors are just as apt to react that way, as religious fanatics. You're human too, you know.
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briere 14 year s ago
poor little boy,
his situation was so grim,
very depressing,he is in a better place now
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qwed 14 year s ago
"Its moors"
"No, its Moops"
"No, its Moops"
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dsfaggh 14 year s ago
Oh that sucks so much... poor kiddo. 
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$h1t 14 year s ago
this made me so sad
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hh 14 year s ago
Weed out the useless ones, this child should've died soon as he was born. There is no reason for people like this to live.
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lilacfla 14 year s ago
rest in peace dear.
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lady J 14 year s ago
Oh it's s sad. I can't believe that i didn't heard this history before. Poor boy. R.I.P
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LOL-GUY 14 year s ago
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Andreea 14 year s ago
LOL-GUY,
Go die >.>
Go die >.>
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Puffa Fish 13 year s ago
Thats sad
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Because 12 year s ago
I knew David, I lived down the street from him. We would always visit him on Halloween, he would pass out candy. I wished I would have come over more often to play. RIP David
Meanwhile, religion has nothing to do with parents' desire to preserve the lives of their children, or doctors' fulfilment of their Hippocratic Oath to preserve life. Antitheistic fanatics who are parents or doctors are just as apt to react that way, as religious fanatics. You're human too, you know.
poor little boy,
his situation was so grim,
very depressing,he is in a better place now
"No, its Moops"
Go die >.>