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[mickeym]

Via Carys:

A friend posted: "A friend of a friend's son is in last stages of a 2 1/2 year battle with neuroblastoma cancer. The family is celebrating Christmas next week. Noah's wish is to get lots of Xmas cards. He is 5 1/2 yrs old! "Lets pay it forward" If everyone posts this we can... make this possible!!!

Noah Biorkman 1141 Fountain View Circle, South Lyon, MI 48178.

There's a news article at: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/11/thousands_send_early_christmas.html about Noah and his early Christmas, and Snopes has an article on it at: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/biorkman.asp, verifying it as true.


This...this is why I have so much trouble believing in God. What sort of loving, caring God allows a child to die before they've even begun to live? *sigh* Now that I've cried some more, yeah, I'm going to go to bed.

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[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

Frankly, as awful as it is for the people left behind, I would've rather died of cancer when I was five than I would now. You don't really get what you're losing when you're that age. Sure you know you're sick, sure you know intellectually about death and see your parents upset and know you're not a normal kid living a normal life, but I don't think you have that sense of loss and grief that age brings. You haven't learned to expect more or to understand the concept of "fair" when you get sick at two. As awful as I feel for the kid, I feel worse for the people around him. I bet they're taking it a lot harder than he is. :-/

Sometimes shit just sucks.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally feel worse for those who are being left behind--because you're right. At 5 1/2, he doesn't really know what death means (though I'm sure he's heartily sick of being sick). I just meant, with the God thing... Hell, I don't know. I just hate all the crap about a loving, caring God, who lets children die (or anyone!) and leaves their families to mourn them, and I can't even discuss this rationally, I'm all hormonal right now and really tired of crying today.

Nobody should have to spend their entire short life sick, and then have it cut so short -- or watch someone they love spend their entire short life sick, and then have it end.

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

The older you get and the more loss you see and experience, the more you feel like this joke ain't funny anymore. I can understand why some people drift away from faith with time. *HUGS*

My mom's one of those people who gets really angry at God. I find it hard to get mad, because I never expected anything. My friends growing up were all raped, or beaten, or neglected, or lost parents, or raised by alcoholic drug addicts or whatever. It's depressing, but I don't think deep down that I ever expected God to spare anyone, even as a little kid.

That little boy with cancer...at least his family cares enough to try to fill his last year with love. That's the only good thing I can take out of it. *sigh* *hugs some more* I'm sorry you feel hormonal, too, it makes everything worse.