Friday, June 19, 2009

Read this and understand..

Her body wracked by a rare cancer, 10-year-old Colby Curtin hung on to life so she could watch Up, the new Pixar animated feature.

Colby, diagnosed with a vascular tumor in 2005, had set her hopes on seeing the film when she saw a trailer for the movie in April. Her mother, Lisa Curtin, told the Orange County Register that her daughter's health took a turn for the worse afterwards, and by June, after the movie had opened, Colby was too ill to travel to a theater.

Reached by family friends and told of her wish, executives at the digital studio based in Emeryville, Calif. arranged to fly an employee with a DVD of the film to the girl's home in Huntington Beach on June 10, the newspaper reported. (Pixar did not comment.)

Colby, who could no longer see, listened to the film while her mother narrated the action. She died seven hours later.

A vigil is planned for Friday.


The level of sorrow I have right now ... I didn't put this so much to draw attention to the little girl, although I feel so sorry for her parents and family right now.

What I wanted you to see the beauty in what happened. They didn't have to do it. Children die everyday on this earth, unfortunately. The beauty in this is that someone listened. Someone at Pixar had enough heart and caring to send someone with the movie to allow this little person their last wish. Although not a very big thing in the scope of the world, that one act by Pixar was the most powerful thing for the girl. Kudos to Pixar, and may Colby rest in peace.


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