Posted on 03/25/2008 8:26:26 AM PDT by philsfan24
The overly sensitive crowd can bite me. And trust me, many a short and chortle will occur when reading it, but the vast majority won’t have it in them to admit it.
Why in the world would a young girl do something like that? Her parents must have really been great for her to have low self esteem.”
I cannot blame parents across the board on this one.
There are VERY cruel kids in high school and middle school these days.
We are responsible for that, IMO, because we have given these kids faaaarr too much in the material items they get excited about. Madison Avenue has done an outstanding job on our kids. They think they have to have EVERYTHING that is on the shelves for sale.
The kids in school make fun of someone who doesn’t have the latest fad clothing or the I-pods, etc. I know it is very hard to reject all these pleas from the kids, but I believe it starts at a very young age when you have to shape their reality about what is important and what is just a fad that is very expensive. It is particularly hard for parents who don’t want their daughters dressing like little tramps. Finding jeans that actually come up to the waist often means buying them at the western store. the idols they have are edgy at best.
One of my best stories about a frieis that the daughter had every CD of music as soon as it hit the shelves. She could sing perfectly every word of every song. This same kid said she couldn’t remember dates and other kinds of “history stuff”. I pointed out to her that she had an excellent memory—she could remember songs that were 5 years old. She didn’t like my comment, but Mom looked at me like she had had an eye-opening idea. This kid could have gone to college, but she bailed out of school as soon as she had enough credits, and will be wasting most of her life, I predict. Mom was wealthy enough to give the kids everything they asked for. New I-pod for btdidn’t last a week- he left it on a bench when going skiing. Why he needed the I-pod to ski, I don’t understand.
I know one place you ought to inject them.
Yes they could, by not paying for it. How many 18 years olds have that kind of money?
Probably the anaesthetic was given by a nurse anaesthetist. Many people choose a nurse over an M.D. for elective surgery that is not paid for by insurance, because it costs less. There is no law that requires outpatient surgery centers to use M.D.s, though many of the better ones do. People do not realize that all anaesthetics are poisons and that nurses are not trained to identify or handle unusual reactions to them. ALWAYS insist on an anaesthesiologist when you have surgery of any kind!!
That’s what I was thinking too—I was just responding to another poster that said it could have been for a reduction.
Very sad. I guess if she was 18 there wasn’t much her parents could do legally to stop her.”
Where did an 18 y/o high school student get the money for this surgery??????
Right.
Upon her 18th birthday, she instantly became completely responsible in all possible ways for every decision she made. Everything her parents taught her (for good or ill) became instantly irrelevant. She was a whole new creation, tabula rasa.
So ... her lethally stupid decisions were completely her own damn fault.
Paging Prof. Darwin ... Prof. Darwin, please pick up the black discourtesy phone.
It was funny,but keep something in mind,this girls parents or other relatives could be Freepers.Also,Free Republic is often linked in top searches on search engines.We should ALL think about that before we make a post.
To continue digging the hole I am in...
Elliot Spitzer?
I thought it was funny.
In my defense, this is not the first time there has been threads about a young girl dying from getting a boob job. And to be honest, this is a very tame one in its comments. Usually the parents are the target of direct fire and heavy insults.
You should stick to writing about what you know...'cause this sure ain't it.
hehe
You are taking a lot of heat for this statement, but I for one agree with you. I have a hard time getting upset when people suffer (or die) because of their own ignorance and vanity. Although tragic, this girls's death was preventable by her and her parents, yet they decided to have the elective surgery so she could have bigger boobs. I am sure they recieved the standard 'risks involved with any surgical procedure' speech. They weighed the risk vs. rewards and made a decision. Now all involved must live (no pun intended) with the consequences.
At the root of this is the fact that this was an unnecessary surgery that she chose to undergo. If this was heart transplant or some other life saving procedure, I might be upset. I cannot be forlorn because a person dies getting a boob job. But that's just me.
She couldn't have been too happy if she was willing to go under the knife for bigger boobs.
Peer-Pressure is a mo-fo at that age.
Could also have been a graduation present from mom and dad.
In any case, a real-life example of vanity as one of the seven deadly sins.
So tragic to see a promising young life ended in such a pointless manner. Breast augmentation was the last thing this girl needed to be successful.
If the girl had been the daughter of a prominent democrat, you probably would have gotten different responses.
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