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I am a very cold person, that's why I excelled is specific jobs in the military. I live in severe pain every day and I have no issues with embracing death regardless of which end of a scope I'm on.

With that said, I find it amazing how detached from reality many of you are...

Obviously many of you have had a real good life; too easy, free of the pain of loss. You have never watched a loved one fade away, never experienced the compassion and unconditional love of a child, never took the time to conceive the overwhelming impact such loss has on others, never had to deal with the trauma of continual drain (physical, emotional, financial, spiritual, and other wise)

When you grow up, maybe you will grasp how and why such a story is both plausible and probable.

This is NOT a fake story. I am not too shocked that people commented and said this was fake, as 95% of the people who are on the internet have the I.Q. of a boiled cabbage.

"Sorry, but obviously fake!

This means her parents never cleaned up in 255 days? Never found one single note by chance what would have spoiled Elenas hide-and-seek?

Nice and heart-warming story anyway!"

What a jerk! Have you had a child that was dying of a terminal illness? Do you have any idea how much time that takes? To say they never "cleaned up" is not only low, but it shows your inability to fully appreciate the dynamics a family goes through when a loved one is dying. They knew they only had so much time with their daughter. Do you really think that "cleaning up" was high on their priority list?

You owe these people an apology, and if not given, then you show yourself for the insensitive jerk your comments make you out to be.

The one who leaves believing will leave with something beautiful and memorable.

The one who rejects will have just wasted time and will have forgotten all about it by this evening, unless they are still patting themselves on the back for their legendary investigative skills. Like some people I know with similar attitude, these will no doubt drink or drug themselves into numbness this weekend to dull the experience of the cynical, useless, ugly reality they have constructed.

I choose to be the former and leave this site with a few moments spent and feeling of having gotten something of far greater value than the cost of the short time I have spent reading it.

Here is the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

This and other internet laws are discussed at the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6408927/Internet-rules-and- laws-the-top-10-from-Godwin-to-Poe.html

When I was diagnosed and given a 40% survival with treatment, My biggest fear wasn't the dying. It was my 5 yr old son and how I so did not want to leave him. I wanted him to know how much I love him. I think it would be a good idea, even if you aren't leaving this world, to follow the book and do what Elena did, remind those around you that you love them. If something were to happen to you, they would find these little love notes and feel as if you were there with them.

The book also helps fund pediatric brain cancer research, Isn't that good enough for all you selfish bastards. The book not only entertains, it inspires and the proceeds go to a wonderful cause.

So, crawl back into your hole and keep your misery to yourself. You are just jealous that you did not come up with the idea.

Posted to keep this discussion thread in compliance with Godwin's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law)

It was the writer of the article who used the term '135 days' instead.

I can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to jump to the ridiculous conclusion that just because the writer said 135 days, therefore the parents used those exact words, therefore the doctor used those exact words, therefore the story is a lie. Can you see how many silly assumptions were made there?

Being cruel and cynical doesn't mean you're smart, it actually just reveals how very lacking in intelligence you are.

INSENSITIVE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!

However, if this is true, my heart goes out to these parents. While, thankfully, I have never been in a situation where i had a rough estimate of how long my daughter was going to live, I have been in a position where for four days, the doctors didn't know what was wrong with her, or if she was going to make it. Watching my one year old struggle to live during that time broke my heart, and if it were not for the help of complete strangers, I don't know if I would have been able to get through it. It was hard enough for me, a single parent, to do it for four days, it must have been excruciating for these parents, even knowing that the other parent was experiencing the same thing. In some ways, that would probably make it worse, and lead to even more serious problems between them. I truly respect them, and admire them. Finding notes from a child after you have watched them struggle for so long, and still lose, is one of every parents most bittersweet nightmares. It is wonderful to find a little token of love from someone you care about, doubly so if that is a child, but painful if you find it after they are no longer in your life. It is admirable that they can share that with others, so that they might be able to get a little bit of hope out of these parents pain. I offer them my condolences, and my own hope, that they will be able to endure their loss with the same amount of dignity and grace they have shown thus far.

As to all the skeptics.....

I know I said the whole judgement spiel at first, and i will do my best not to judge now, but it is hard. Regardless of your own personal beliefs on this particular subject, we are human beings, all of us, and we are all required to show at least a modicum of common human decency to every other person on this planet. Cross-analyzing, categorizing, and questioning these peoples' pain, is not decency. Neither is belittling their housekeeping skills, or the veracity of the story. Some of the points I have read here are very true: no 0one can know when she placed the notes. None of us readers know the exact words of the doctor. None of us, were we 8in their positions, would bother too awfully much about cleaning the CD cases, or behind the book shelves, when our child s terminally ill. (If they do, they have some serious problems that honestly make me question whether their priorities as a parent are truly in the right order.) All of us on this planet have faced some kind of loss in our lives. All of us have had our honesty questioned about something that we were being completely truthful about. Put yourself there again. If it didn't feel good to you to have a complete stranger question the honesty of your story, don't do it to someone else. karma is a righteous bitch. It WILL come back to bite you.