Something very odd about this boy.

Gahh! he gives me the creeps!

gahdamn! childhood leukemia! there's your dose of perspective for the day.


example:
"...what the! Somebody took my parking space! I'm so upset! ... oh wait, some kid is dying from leukemia right now. Yeah, okay, this parking space thing is not a big deal. I think I'll go volunteer at the hospital after work."

jeez that's inspiring and depressing at the same time

Holy crap that breaks me up... The thought of outliving your kid, and a kid that young is just too horrible.

I have three young boys and the thought of any of them dying is just one of the worst things. In fact anything that steals their childhood, be it their death, the death of me or my wife, or anything that stops them just being able to be a kid is my worst fear. Every now and again I get gripped by that a little as our eldest has a whole host of serious heart defects. He had heart surgery when he was but months old, and will require more... his prognosis is good, but you know... you never know, it could all just go wrong, and the thought of that is just... ahgh.

And, I think, even worse is what this kid has to deal with, a really short life and the KNOWLEDGE you're about to die... man, that... that is just horrible. It's in cases like this that you can see where religion comes from. Anything to let that kid feel like his death isn't the end of everything.

Wow... thats both very uplifting and absolutly heartbreaking at the same time...

Wonderful kid, and well-meaning to the end. However, taking a child's compassionate wish and turning it into feeding the homeless like dogs in an animal shelter feels to me like they're taking a huge dump on the last of their dignity.
Hey Mr. Homeless guy! You might not have a home, but here's a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich!

The kid had a good heart and meant well, and all the props in the world to him for staying strong and thinking of others. The adults however should know better than to use other people, hard on their luck, to make the kid feel good.
Again, the idea of helping someone else was noble, when still in the kid's heart. But realistically, from a grownup's perspective, the resulting peanutbutter and jelly sandwich isn't helping anyone. And the very real indignity and shame of having to beg for less than one meal, regardless if the good samaritan comes to you or vice versa, is something these grownups should have been able to forsee. It's neither a matter of pride nor ingratitude, to me it's about basic human dignity.
Had it been a stunt pulled by the kid then it'd been heartwarming, Disney-inspired show of compassion and care for other people. Being done by the parents like shown in the clip, it looked patronizing almost to the point of being supercilious. Not in their intent mind you, but in their execution.

They have to eat. And that's one less meal they have to worry about. I'm sure he would've rather bought them all homes.
Have you ever given food to homeless people? I have, and believe me, they were extremely grateful.

Suddenly that other terminally ill kid's wish to see a yet to be released movie doesn't seem so noble.. okay tasteless joke, but damn... this is a really brave kid.

*promote

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 10:10pm PST - promote requested by original submitter burdturgler.

>> ^zeeklancer:
Something very odd about this boy.


^I think the video is just squished to make him appear to look a lot more like a cabbage patch kid then he does in real life.

Thanks for posting this, Burdturgler, it's a wonderful statement that this boy has made.

>> ^notarobot:
>> ^zeeklancer:
Something very odd about this boy.

^I think the video is just squished to make him appear to look a lot more like a cabbage patch kid then he does in real life.


He was probably taking steroids along with the chemotherapy.

jesus... wow...

seeing the title i thought "oh no, social pornography", but it was.. kinda touching anyways.

He's also avoiding a lot of sh*t: high school, insane girls, being trapped in a low wage job, bad credit, crushing debt, rip-off student loans, insane women, soaring health care costs, a host of existential middle-aged anxieties and later, the ravages of age.

No surviving to witness the rise of the global police state and ID and tracking chip implants until the birth of Skynet and the Matrix.