Credit to humanity

[§am]

Here's a story that not a lot of people outside of the UK will have heard of (I think), but I truly believe it is one that we can all take something away from

BBC News - Cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton dies aged 19

Stephen Sutton was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 15, and died last night/this morning, aged 19.

Read the article, but if you're in a rush:
One of his life motto's was: "I don't see the point in measuring life in terms of time anymore. I'd rather measure life in terms of making a difference"
And what a difference he made - his story led to £3.2M ($5.63M) being raised for the Teenage Cancer Trust (charity) here in the UK.

RIP

 

[Geoffc]

Here's a story that not a lot of people outside of the UK will have heard of (I think), but I truly believe it is one that we can all take something away from

BBC News - Cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton dies aged 19

Stephen Sutton was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 15, and died last night/this morning, aged 19.

Read the article, but if you're in a rush:
One of his life motto's was: "I don't see the point in measuring life in terms of time anymore. I'd rather measure life in terms of making a difference"
And what a difference he made - his story led to £3.2M ($5.63M) being raised for the Teenage Cancer Trust (charity) here in the UK.

RIP

I wonder how the people feel that posted a couple of weeks ago saying he was a fraud and not as ill as he let on?

Yes a truly remarkable and inspirational young man who set out to raise £10k for charity and ended up with over £3.2M. I suspect that it will rise before this is over.


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[§am]

They should all now publicaly apologise (like when they ranted about it) and add another £100 donation as a good will gesture.

Had a look at his fundraising site and it currently stands at £3.4M

 

[DraganDL]

Good fellow - brave heart, strong spirit. But, I personally am kinda reserved towards exposing people suffered with incurable diseases to the "public display", as it become so "trendy" nowadays, however successful in terms of money-raising it might be. What I mean by that is, the Society Institutions (countries, Humanity, World...) should do much more to help, much more to prevent, to cure, on the regularly financed basis (building much stronger healthcare/welfare systems)...
Like B. Springsteen warns in "We take care of our own", or Henry David Thoreau who had written something like "...let's stop giving a CHARITY, a few nickels or so from our pocket money, that KEEPS the poverty alive - instead, let's give away NINETY % of our possessions, and BAN poverty forever!"