Do all remember Dylan Walborn. Well, I do. For little Dylan was not so different than our own son. The big difference is that we could not imagine doing what these parents did and he led a happy life for twenty six years, finally succumbing to a fierce disease we parents caught too.
As a reminder, here is a website detailing what happened.
IN MEMORIAL Dylan Walborn, 2000 - 2005
It is a difficult but necessary read for me, because the resume of his problems is just too familiar and I must surpress the outrage. Totally absent from the killing team justification is the joy, the happiness, and the pure angelic looks these little kids radiate. What evil it must take to suppress such good!
The following is a reader response to the editor in the Denver Post:
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Editor,
What hypocrites!
After glorifying Dylan Walborn's starvation by parents
who wearied of giving their disabled child appropriate
care, the Denver Post's Kevin Simpson chronicled his
starvation death for over 20 days. The inaptly titled,
"Letting Go, Dylan's last days," was an instruction
manual for euthanizing medically vulnerable children.
Your editorial praising a Denver Human Services
investigation of the death of Chandler Grafner falls
on deaf ears after the Post gave a plethora of reasons
and justifications for starving little Dylan to death.
You set the standard and gave other parents the idea
that when the going gets rough, ending innocent life
is permissible.
Shame on you for pretending otherwise.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
2050 S. Oneida Suite 116
Denver, Colorado 80224
720-394-8946
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."