Remember the autistic 5-year old who died of a heart attack?

[conuly]

Yeah, it's been confirmed as the chelation. Naturally. This isn't really news.

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[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Adding in: I see that you were referring to the little boy that was killed as the "poor thing" ...so you aren't completely without sympathy.

However, he's the victim of bigotry and, ultimately, murder. Sympathizing with people whose hatred for non-harmful differences leads them to inject a child with poison (or subject him to abusive 'treatments' designed to make him look like something he isn't), let alone murdering him...nope, sorry, not cool at all. Murder is murder, abuse is abuse, and that the victim was disabled shouldn't mean the crime was any less heinous; it certainly doesn't make it any less terrible for the kid.

Unfortunately, they won't be punished as the abusers or killers of a 'normal' child would be. People that attack or murder the disabled rarely are in our society.

[ratkrycek.livejournal.com]

Not that it matters in the final analysis, but so many of these parents, I believe, don't mean any harm... they've just been woefully misguided by the 'experts'. Not that that excuses anything; they can, presumably, do their own research, after all... but I think another tragedy here is that so many parents/members of the general public just are that uneducated, and that makes me sad.

To think that a parent would knowingly subject their child to a treatment that has a higher than average chance of killing him or her... that's pretty much unthinkable.

(I say "higher than average" because my parents signed off on a fair bit of surgery for me, and as they tell you, any surgical procedure *could* end in death... but it's pretty rare in the main, from what I can tell. At least for the surgeries I've had, most of which have not been particularly dangerous, as far as I know.)

[absurdixie.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I'm not saying it's acceptable, but a child had died and my sympathies were lying more with the fact that a life had been taken, as opposed to the morals of the treatment. This isn't making sense, I'm not very good at wording things.

I guess what I was trying to say was that, in the eyes of the parents perhaps, it was a 'cure' and suddenly they lose thier child.
I wasn't thinking clearly, I was more upset that a child had been killed, to be completely honest with you.

And I didn't mean 'cure' to be insulting at all, apologies if it seemed like that, I've not got the vocabulary to use words which would have meant what I, well, meant.

That and I'm a dimwit. *shrug*