[Mopp4]

My inital reaction to this article was shock. This boy is dying at age 15 and the most important thing in the world to him is to get laid before he passes on. He didn't even want his parents to know about it. Is this reflective of the way young people view life today? I don't care that I will be missing out on the chance to lead a full life, just let me have sex before I go?

[DWSUWF]

Kids don't raise themselves, at least they weren't meant to. They don't go this far off track in a normal, decent family.

This is the sort of soul-less, animalistic response to impending death that might be expected from a human child raised by beasts.

You've got to assign a healthy dose of blame to the parents here.

[garbanzo]

How many articles are we going to have on this story...it's a not repeat per se, but there at least two threads already on it.

[youngjim]

Sounds reasonable to me. I was a 15 year old boy once--at that age that's all I wanted.
You must be a girl.

[Cvengr]

It's been said that for those destined for eternal damnation, the world is the closest they'll get to heaven. For those with an eternal relationship with God paid for by Him, our worldly stay is the closest to hell we'll ever know.

Hopefully he was below the age of accountability or still recognized the impotence of such a nearly final act or perhaps it was natural for his true self to be judged accordingly.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Chelsea is one lucky girl.

[DeSoto]

Old news, already discussed two days ago. Likely that FR is where the Chicago Sun-Times got the story. Check out thoroughly discussed story HERE.

[a_federalist]

I hope this doesn't result in an epidemic of 'dying' teenage boys.

[dennisw]

Did he wear a condom?

[where's_the_Outrage?]

This boy is dying at age 15

I also remember me at 15, I had raging hormones and thought with my member several times. (Don't know if I've changed that much, have to ask my wife).

What would have been a better for him to ask for? A new playstation (that'd really be earth shattering), a trip to Disney World?

Yea it may be seen as self centered, but put yourself in his place, what would you ask for as a dying wish?

My Grandfather on his deathbed told my father his wished for one last peaceful bowel movement (he was a little more blunt). My father was shocked, until years later when he had quaduple by-bass surgery and finally understood that my grandfather was right.

So not having "walked a mile in his shoes", I give him the benefit of the doubt and hope he made a right request.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Interesting: His eternal life is immediately before him.

And this "child of the media" wants 30 seconds of immediate sexual gratification rather than an eternity of life.

If he is dead now, I doubt he considers those 30 seconds very important right now.

Notice also that his "instincts" told him NOT to tell his parents, nor hospital administrators ...... Another case of "morality" and "good conscious" coming from instincts deep in our souls.

[EggsAckley]

Look at it this way: It proves he's not a Muslim terrorist. He had to "get it" here
because he knows there are no virgins waiting for him "there."

[ashrad]

Is this reflective of the way young people view life today?

Just curious, but are you female?

I know when I was at that age my hormones were going wild - hell they still are, but while I have never acted on those impulses I was also never dying slowly of cancer.

I don't care that I will be missing out on the chance to lead a full life, just let me have sex before I go?

I would imagine he cared greatly about missing out on a full life, sex or no sex, he still loses that.

If it were me in Jack's shoes you bet that would've been my dying wish.

[thinktwice]

Everyone's answer to the first question regarding what one wants in a one on one personal relationship -- What do I want with you? -- is probably ... "I want to love you."

[pollwatcher]

I read about how some of those ever-progressive Dutch wanted state-paid hookers to service people in long hospital stays! I hope they intened to do more than draw a curtain between the roomates! (insert George Costanza image here)

Seriously, though. Long term patients ought'a at least be allowed to socialize with each other, w/ maybe a little privacy. If the kid just had another female patient friend who paid some attention to him, it would be a non-issue.

[John Jorsett]

I don't understand some of the comments here. Does the bible say somewhere that sex outside of marriage is a mortal sin? What's this "he's going to Hell" stuff?

[HENRYADAMS]

The boy is merely reflecting one of the four highest democratic "virtues" e.g. eating, drinking, copulating and snoring. These "Good Things" are what he has seen and heard all of his young life.

[thathamiltonwoman]

Who paid the prostitute I wonder?

[Landru]

"Is this reflective of the way young people view life today?"

Yes.

...if you're an optimist.

[L.N. Smithee]

Is this reflective of the way young people view life today? I don't care that I will be missing out on the chance to lead a full life, just let me have sex before I go?

Short answer: Yes.

I hope to be able to elaborate later. I am getting ready for church now.

[DaGman]

It must have been a very long time since you were 15 year old boy, or you're a girl. This is what I call compassion.