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.
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...
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.
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
But the bad news came after the birth of David. The doctors discovered that his sister Katherine wasn’t a match for a bone marrow transplant and thus couldn’t be a donor.
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.
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...
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.
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 >.>