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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a horrible idea. I would be irritated at the emotional manipulation.

I understand the parents of the young patient are distraught, but come on. It's not cool to encourage the surviving teen to get something permanent. This isn't about disrespecting the future memory of a pediatric cancer victim. Don't believe anyone who tries to tell you that, since that would reduce her memory to a tatoo, which is ridiculous. It's about not allowing another child to mark their body permanently before they are old enough to really think it through unemotionally.

I would persuade them to do something else. 
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I am guessing you have been incredibly fortunate and not experienced the untimely death of a teen.

I lost a close friend to illness at 18, and a sibling lost a very close friend to suicide at 16. Decades later, family friends lost their 16 year old.

To say you’d be irritated at this is staggering. These parents are likely making funeral plans for a 15-year old. This child is facing death at a time when peers are thinking of sports, prom, and college.

This might bring them a measure of peace and closure.
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