A Girl Frozen in Time: “Pillow Angel” That Will Forever be a Child.

that’s so sad

Where can I get a “Fat Mould”?

I find it very hard to come to a clear opinion on this…

I hope that it was the right decision.

Digital Vomiting: It seems that seeing their daughter as anything other than a innocent, helpless little girl, totally dependent on her parents, is a big part of their problem. ‘Pillow Angel,’ their term of affection for her, clearly shows this. It seems they can’t bear to live a physically mature, sexually developed daughter.

And even if we agree that she has no concept of what she’s missing out on, she stills deserves to be treated with respect. Do we not treat the dead with dignity?

When we read the synopsis it sounds terrible because it brings to mind stories like Willowbrook or the forced sterilizations of the 30′s and 40′s. So, I was on the mildly disapproving side of this argument until I read their site. It is nothing of the kind.

After reading their side of the story it really seems to me that the decision was a long thought out, practical and loving response to the problems and needs she will face in the future. They are trying to avoid putting her in an impersonal care facility for as long as they can, and thinking of her comfort and safety for long after they might no longer be able to care for her, in short, doing their job as proper parents.

And Silent002 is right, if someday there IS a miracle cure that !! grows new brain tissue !! , then she will just be undersized and unable to have children – not all THAT bad in the wide world of symptoms.

This little discussion about “Well, what if there’s a miracle and she suddenly grows a new brain!? What if there’s a miracle treatment!?”:
If we come up with a way to jumpstart this girl’s brain to the point where she cares if she has a womb or not is such progress that if we can do that, we can regrow all the parts that were removed.

Secondly, “How selfish of those people to want a little girl for ever!”:
Imagine babysitting a 200 pound baby. Ever notice how a baby will flail with out really noticing it? Imagine trying to bathe or move or dress a person who has Grand Mal seizures 24/7.

I think that, while her parents may have been well-intentioned, any individual should be allowed to live up to his or her biological destiny, even if it leads to death, or to the capacity to breed or to have sexual urges while having the mental age of a 3-month-old. While the tube may be akin to feeding, I think that, if the parents were to “do the right thing” by not refusing tube feeding, they had to go all the way and allow the girl to grow up. The very idea of “desexualizing” their daughter is even more terrible than the idea of pregnancy. Maybe there would have been no sex, and since she is not in a position to understand either situation, an act that can be physically enjoyable would not have been worse abuse than what doctors did to her. I don’t think her parents acted in her best interest.

They acted in their own interest, and they were uncomfortable with their daughter’s adult body and sexuality. And they did not protect her from abuse as much as they have deprived her of a form of pleasure (she probably doesn’t have many) and, if it came to that, of motherhood. As for her child being mentally handicapped, that’s not sure, and a handicapped child is still human, and not necessarily worse off than her.