Five-year-old boy dies after seeing his parents get married by his hospital bedside

Gloucester (UK) Citizen ^ | april 10 2015 | The Gloucester UK Citizen

[WilliamIII]

Five-year-old Corey Edwards had one final wish – to see his parents get married. The youngster had undergone open heart surgery eight times at Bristol Children's Hospital for a complex congenital heart defect, which finally claimed his life this week.

Corey had been at the hospital's Paediatric Intensive Care Unit for the past three months but doctors told his parents Craig and Jemma that there was nothing else they could do for the youngster.

[BenLurkin]

[Doulos1]

Six years too late, one would think.

[cherry]

God bless the little boy but to think the last most important wish of a dying boy would be to see his parents get married??????.....how sad.....how utterly sad that our children are growing up this way...

mom and dad...shame on you...producing babies without forethought of being real parents...

[Gay State Conservative]

Years ago Saint Jude's Hospital often ran 30 minute TV ads asking for donations.They'd feature kids with various life threatening diseases.Many of the stories would bring tears to my eyes...even at 6 feet tall and 200 pounds.

[Doulos1]

Amen, sister, amen!

[jonno]

Reminds me of the parable of the workers - where the ones hired towards the end of the workday get the same wage as those who were hired in the morning.

Sometimes it’s good to just celebrate when folks finally do the right thing...

[Kirkwood]

Only 2 hospitals in the UK are able to do transplants on children. In the US it is about 145 hospitals. The child in the UK has to give informed consent for heart surgery - the parents are not allowed to make the decision. This means children under 13 will not get a transplant because they cannot understand the process well enough to give consent.

[twister881]

The tragedy of socialized medicine in the UK, courtesy of the NHS that gave that boy a death sentence. Same thing is now occurring in the US.

[wardaddy]

You and me both

Shriners ads too

The utterly burned girl fishing with her dad

Whew

[wardaddy]

And yes

Damn right folks should marry

A western civilization of slatterns and rakes

[Sacajaweau]

I’m old and remember Danny Thomas. St. Jude’s Hospital has become my favorite charity. They have a great web site. It’s easy to give...and be thankful for your healthy kids.

[Doulos1]

When we live outside of the will of God (the Word of God) we suffer the consequences. I’m sorry for those who refuse God’s love and instructions.

[madprof98]

. . . how utterly sad that our children are growing up this way

I have seen little kids beg their parents to get married. It's beyond unbelievable.

[Gay State Conservative]

...and be thankful for your healthy kids.

I worked for 20 years in the ER of a major hospital.Our hospital didn't have a pediatric service because there's a huge pediatric hospital literally next door.As a result none of the death and dying I saw on the job involved young kids.But Children's Hospital didn't have radiation therapy machines so they used ours.The sight of kids being wheeled through our corridors with their bald heads and chemotherapy pallor still saddens me...seriously saddens me.

[dfwgator]

Darn screen got blurry on me.

[mom of young patriots]

It just shows you what is natural to human beings. Kids instinctively know from the cradle what parents are and that there should be one of each sex and that they should be committed to each other. Alternate situations feel awkward to children. My parents were divorced and I remember plenty of those hollow gut lonely moments. It felt like my home situation was unstable and it was out of my control.

[madprof98]

Many people would not acknowledge having had that feeling. Thank you.

[Gay State Conservative]

Alternate situations feel awkward to children.

Agree 100%.But I would have added "and often damages them to an extent that's difficult to exaggerate".

[Bigg Red]

Amen! Disgusting and sad.