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Wedding Woes
ReturnOfKuus
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One heart, with Cajun blackening seasoning
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localcle/20110329/ts_yblog_localcle/ryan-trewin-10-loses-his-courageous-battle-with-cancer
There was one of these kids in my city, too, a little older, but the same basic story: average kid gets sick, gets to do all kinds of fun things that a healthy kid woudln't get to do and becomes semi-famous because of it, then inevitably dies and everyone calls him a hero.
This annoys the bejeezus out of me. All these kids are doing is getting sick. The only reason anyone other than their families knows who they are is because they're sick and people feel sorry enough for them to push for them to meet celebrities, or any other Make A Wish type thing they want. They're not doing anything heroic - a healthy kid would be doing these exact same fun things if given the chance, and in any case, it's not heroic to meet famous people and do fun things. It's the whole damn moral value of suffering issue all over again, that you must be awesome and heroic just because you're sick.
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There was one of these kids in my city, too, a little older, but the same basic story: average kid gets sick, gets to do all kinds of fun things that a healthy kid woudln't get to do and becomes semi-famous because of it, then inevitably dies and everyone calls him a hero.
This annoys the bejeezus out of me. All these kids are doing is getting sick. The only reason anyone other than their families knows who they are is because they're sick and people feel sorry enough for them to push for them to meet celebrities, or any other Make A Wish type thing they want. They're not doing anything heroic - a healthy kid would be doing these exact same fun things if given the chance, and in any case, it's not heroic to meet famous people and do fun things. It's the whole damn moral value of suffering issue all over again, that you must be awesome and heroic just because you're sick.
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Re: One heart, with Cajun blackening seasoning
And really, no one should have to go through what a terminal illness puts you through. No one. It's crappy, and it's unfair, yet no one seems to care unless it's a kid, and then it's heroic.
[QUOTE]Damn those terminally sick kids and all their attention-whoring. *eyeroll*
Posted by MrsMyrtle[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]I'm not saying don't do these things, but it's not heroic. It just isn't. None of it is, from the fun stuff to the suffering.
Posted by ReturnOfKuus[/QUOTE]
Pass the Cajun saltshaker on the definition of heroic...
From the stories my parents tell, when my older sister got sick they tried to get as much family time in as possible. I don't think it ever crossed their minds that she needed the support of the town, she just needed to know her family was there for her.
ETA - he was a lucky SOB - not with being terminally ill, but the local sports teams, especially the Pens did all kinds of crap for him.
[QUOTE]are you talking about the kid that they used to feature during the Pens games, that died at some point last spring? ETA - he was a lucky SOB - not with being terminally ill, but the local sports teams, especially the Pens did all kinds of crap for him.
Posted by *Barbie*[/QUOTE]
YES! You know the one I mean.
Having said that I don't plan on running around kicking sick kids. We just need a new word.
I just a friendly gal looking for options.
Posted by zsazsa-stl[/QUOTE]
YES x INFINITY. i hate that "hero" has lost its meaning. i'm sorry to draw this parallel, but it's right up there with "couture." "couture" does not mean a track suit -- it means btchy old french women smoking brown cigarettes and talking sht while they hand sew a wedding dress with a 10 foot train. "hero" doesn't mean going outside in the rain to get a sandwich; it means running towards when everyone else is running away.