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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would be a no brainer to me. The girl can get the tattoo and your daughter go with her to get it. However, your daughter may get a matching one when she is of legal age. I am not sure why she has to do it at 15. It would still match at age 18...[/quote]

How sad- “you can go with your friend and tell her you’ll be allowed to get your own at 18, the only reason she is getting it earlier is because she will be dead by 18. You can tell her that since you aren’t dying , you’ll get yours later”. Can you imagine this conversation playing out? [/quote]

Are the "strident" poster below?  I wonder what you have personally wrapped up in this.  Your posts are coming across awfully "stridently" for someone not actually in this situation.[/quote]

I'm the "strident" poster, and I didn't post this other thing. I'm not in this situation, but I did have a very close friend who died when I was 16, so my opinion is motivated by empathy for the girl whose friend is dying and how her mom helps her to process that experience, which will be significant to her for years to come, regardless of whether the girls would still be friends later in life if the friend didn't die.

For what it's worth, I just really don't think that getting a small tattoo is a big deal. It's not unhealthy. It's not unsafe. It's not even really permanent. A little thing like OP described can be removed easily or covered up in any number of ways if OP's daughter wants to cover it. [/quote]

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