[philsfan24]

this is pretty sad. do girls today really have self esteem this low they feel need to get surgery to alter their bodies? disgusting.

[dfwgator]

This could have happened with any surgery requiring anaesthesia.

There should be a way to test patients beforehand, if they have never been under anasethesia to see if they are allergic.

[Polybius]

Paramedics were summoned to the teen's aid at the Boca Raton outpatient surgery unit .....

"Paramedics were summoned to the teen's aid"?

Where the hell was the anesthesiologist or did this "outpatient surgery unit" cut costs by not even having one?

[Rio]

[pandoraou812]

It is sad & yes many girls do have low self esteem. Many want perfect bodies & their parents get them whatever they want. I’ve heard of 16 yr olds getting boob jobs. It is wrong IMO to let young girls do this without getting some counseling or giving much thought to it. Prayers for the girl & her family. Such a needless death at so young an age.

[Phantom Lord]

She was captain of her high school cheerleading squad, a nearly straight-A student and a soon-to-be pre-med student at the University of Florida

Seems she wanted to be a D student.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Another victim of the culture war.

Tragic.

[Piquaboy]

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.

[ArrogantBustard]

Some supposedly adult women “think” that giving their 16yo daughters a boob-job for their birthday is a good idea.

[Pablo64]

"The West Boca High School senior, whom friends described as "perfect" and full of promise and possibilities..."

Interesting that they described her as perfect. Apparently in her own eyes she felt she was less than perfect.

Very sad. I guess if she was 18 there wasn't much her parents could do legally to stop her.

[peggybac]

’ “The surgery itself was very personal,” Perlman told the paper. “She passed away from complications during surgery.”

Heh?

[G.Mason]

... "She was a role model for a lot of people," her friend Vicky Goldring, 16, told the paper. "She was incredibly smart. She wanted to help people. She was just a happy 18-year-old girl." ...

Whew!

Good thing, otherwise she might have had some problems.

[tennteacher]

Breast augmentation? What a senseless tragedy.

[aruanan]

The West Boca High School senior, whom friends described as "perfect" and full of promise and possibilities, was mourned by classmates at a candlelight vigil at the school Sunday night. More than 400 people attended.

I hope they handed out big candles.

[MEGoody]

She was just a happy 18-year-old girl.<

She couldn't have been too happy if she was willing to go under the knife for bigger boobs.

[Xenalyte]

Breast augmentation is elective, so by definition no one NEEDS it.

Also, an 18-year-old girl doesn’t have five large for a boob job. Why did the parents finance this?

[Sig Sauer P220]

So sad that she had to die from lack of self-esteem.

[syriacus]

Some girls have breasts which develop very unusually. They are not merely smallish. Plastic surgery is a godsend for them.

[sit-rep]

She was just a happy 18-year-old girl."

Apparently she was not as happy as some think she was if thought she needed a boob job...

[cubreporter]

It is disgusting. I walked to school. Now they have parking spaces reserved for driving very expensive cars. Sad and outrageous all at the same time.

[trisham]

Tragic. What a reason to die at 18.