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incognito562 14 year s ago
cray
       
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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.
       
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briere 14 year s ago
cray

poor little boy,
his situation was so grim,
very depressing,he is in a better place now
cray n_recourse
       
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lolipop 14 year s ago
very sad.... n_sad
       
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qwed 14 year s ago
"Its moors"
"No, its Moops"
       
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cya 14 year s ago
hmm budwister piwo
       
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major7 14 year s ago
what have you done you muthaf*ckin' parents
       
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dsfaggh 14 year s ago
Oh that sucks so much... poor kiddo. n_sad
       
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$h1t 14 year s ago
this made me so sad cray
       
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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. n_sad
       
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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
JC-LOL
       
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Andreea 14 year s ago
LOL-GUY,
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
       
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David had friends and classmates who came visit him. One of his friends even arranged the showing of Return of the Jedi at a local movie theatre where David was transported in the transparent bubble that was used to transport him from hospital to his house.

 

When David was four years old, he started poking holes in his cocoon. He used a butterfly syringe that was left in his bubble by accident. That’s when his doctor told him about the danger he runs by doing it because of his condition. This day David for the first time discovered his special condition.

 

At only five, David completely recognized his difference and was afraid what the future held for him.

Although the press created an image of a healthy young boy trapped in a bubble, David was psychologically unstable, primarily due to the lack of human contact, and the seeming hopelessness of his condition. Normally presenting a painstakingly polite facade, he was increasingly angry and depressed about his condition and would act out, expressing rage in a variety of ways, including once spreading his own excrement around the bubble. David was also extremely anxious about germs, including repeated nightmares about the "King of Germs".

 

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