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The picture that is worth more than a thousand words: Gut-wrenching image shows 15-year-old boy with terminal cancer comforting sobbing younger brother after telling him that he is going to die
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 20, 2022 | Lillian Gissen

Posted on 08/20/2022 12:00:45 AM PDT by Morgana

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Cancer sucks
1 posted on 08/20/2022 12:00:45 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

I cannot watch these things


2 posted on 08/20/2022 12:04:49 AM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: Morgana

Disturbing images generate clicks e.g. money.


3 posted on 08/20/2022 12:16:08 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: wardaddy

The osteosarcoma in children is the same type as in young dogs.

Same results, too.

My heart is broken for that boy.

It hits close to home.


4 posted on 08/20/2022 12:56:26 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Morgana

My words about cancer would be much more obscene and savage.

:(


5 posted on 08/20/2022 12:59:06 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: wardaddy
Job 19
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
6 posted on 08/20/2022 2:48:40 AM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: Morgana

The photo image tears at the heart, but I’d be interested to know why someone was present to take a picture during such a terrible moment? I would’ve expected the boy’s parents to have been the one’s telling little brother what was soon going to happen to his big brother, but not all families work in the same way.

I do hope the photographer got Little Brother’s permission to post this online. Were it me, I would never wish to view that picture of that moment.


7 posted on 08/20/2022 4:50:32 AM PDT by lee martell ( )
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I guess other people who have lost people to cancer understand.


8 posted on 08/20/2022 5:20:43 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: lee martell

Based on the background, I would safely guess this was taken at home by a parent to commemorate the moment for posterity. I would also guess the pic was posted on Facebook or other social media....not for clicks but to show the humanity and reality of life for some.

I see nothing wrong with posting this pic. It breaks my heart but I would Cherish a pic of me and my Mom during her last days.....never occurred to me at the time to memorialize the moment.


9 posted on 08/20/2022 5:21:21 AM PDT by Benjamin Dover (Gutfeld: Shits and giggles...SS code names for Brandon and Kamala )
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To: Morgana

Not a big leap to wonder if the Covid vaccine weakened his immune system.


10 posted on 08/20/2022 6:06:00 AM PDT by Paco
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To: Morgana

And for only $19 per month can you help save these children.


11 posted on 08/20/2022 7:18:46 AM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: Theophilus

Amen! Resurrection!


12 posted on 08/20/2022 7:23:51 AM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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To: Paco

Seriously? That’s what you take away from this? GFY


13 posted on 08/20/2022 7:24:11 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: MD Expat in PA

It’s a very valid concern. No need to be rude.


14 posted on 08/20/2022 7:39:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: MD Expat in PA

Never ceases to amaze me how outraged some people get by leaping to false conclusions over a one sentence comment. I find the photo as tragic and sad as anyone. I also think it’s more tragic if his current diagnosis was the result of a compromised immune system from the vaccine and was preventable in the first place.


15 posted on 08/20/2022 7:44:14 AM PDT by Paco
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Sure. Because no kid ever died from cancer before the COVID vax.


16 posted on 08/20/2022 7:47:11 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: MD Expat in PA

MD either you’re dense, a generally disagreeable person or woke up up on the wrong side of the bed. Right now, I’m trending toward dense but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Relax, have a mimosa and chill a little.


17 posted on 08/20/2022 7:56:27 AM PDT by Paco
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To: Morgana

The younger brother is lucky to have the chance to talk to his older brother about this. When I was 12 my 15 year old brother died from osteosarcoma. Before he died, I was thinking he was going to get better. It took a long time to accept that he was gone.


18 posted on 08/20/2022 8:17:04 AM PDT by easy_rider
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To: Morgana

it does indeed but why share that picture, family?


19 posted on 08/20/2022 9:48:07 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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Paco. I generally assume that people who blame every death, without evidence, on the COVID vax as being stupid. Thanks for the confirmation.


20 posted on 08/20/2022 10:38:58 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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