Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'

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HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.

From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.

The animated movie begins with scenes showing the evolution of a relationship between a husband and wife. After losing his wife in old age, the now grumpy man deals with his loss by attaching thousands of balloons to his house, flying into the sky, and going on an adventure with a little boy.

Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.
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complete article (read all of it.)


yeah, I cried.



EDIT: Eric Clapton:tears in heaven. :(
 
Awww God. That is upsetting.

Good for Pixar.
 
Very touching/sad story, and good on Pixar's part to deliver on the girl's dying wish.
 
Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film.

At the end of the film, the mother asked if her daughter enjoyed the movie and Colby nodded yes, Lisa Curtin said.
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Aww. ;(
 
It's a really sad story, I can't even imagine how it would be to face something like that. It was good of Pixar to do that, but my god, you would have to be the world's biggest asshole to deny that request.
 
I just read the whole article, wow, that would make the devil himself cry. I'm like on the brink of actual crying, like a kid. Such tragedy, it's hard to even comprehend :(
 
Poor child. :(


Hopefully science finds a way some day to end this terrible suffering, allowing these people to live the life they should have been able to live.
 
Tears. Tears everywhere.

Oh gods.
 
Ugh :( Not the best story to read upon waking up, hope she passed away peacefully though.
 
Or if the movie had included previews of another movie she just HAD to see.
 
Hobostomp said:
Or if the movie had included previews of another movie she just HAD to see.
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You sir, are worse than Hitler.

Jks

But God the poor thing, not the happiest story to end my evening on, .
 
Well, that's terribly sad. Poor girl. She looks so happy in that photo. ;(
 
I pretty much lost it when they tell you at the end, that they gave the kid her own damn adventure book. fucccckkk youuuuu :(
 
You guys are all a bunch of girls.

Harden the **** up HL2.net.
 
THis is so touching... I'm at lost of words for this girl's last wish to see a movie that seems to be about journeying into the sky. Now I have to see this movie. This is probably the saddest thread I ever read. And my god you guys just had to show a picture of her huh!?! (cries like a baby and runs off)
 
I reckon she would have lived longer if she hadn't seen it, or at least lived a day longer if they delayed showing it.

The human body actually has a certain degree of control on death, if you are brutally determined to live various stress hormones keep you alive that bit longer.

It's like staying awake, closing your eyes is the thing you want to avoid doing.
 
Adrik_Senturu said:
I pretty much lost it when they tell you at the end, that they gave the kid her own damn adventure book. fucccckkk youuuuu :(
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For all her future adventures, no wait.

Am I the only one who is now desensitized to this stuff, I hear about it so much that I can not longer even pretend to care.
 
Robbo said:
Am I the only one who is now desensitized to this stuff, I hear about it so much that I can not longer even pretend to care.
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You're definitely not the only one - the article did nothing for me.
 
It's confirmed then; everyone in Australia has aspergers.
 
Pulse said:
It's confirmed then; everyone in Australia has aspergers.
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I never got an arseburger, WHERE'S MY ARSEBURGER!!!

*edit* sorry I didn't realize how poor that joke was :(
 
Not really crying
Not really sad
Just kind of a "Well, that sucks!" moment...

At least it's a good thing Pixar did that. Quite nice of them.
 
Hobostomp said:
lol I just don't find it particularly sad when someone I don't know dies. I've never been a fan of children, either.
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you stomp on hobos, you wouldn't understand.

As for me though, I have nephews that are 7, 4, 2 and 2, a niece who is 5, and 1 niece and 1 random nephew/niece coming soon. It would devastate me if one of them were to pass, and losing a child must be very heartbreaking. its sad enough so many children die in this world everyday.
 
I live in Huntington Beach. And I think I've heard about this, it was in the local paper. I hope by some freak medical accident she lives, though. :(
 
L3N!N said:
I live in Huntington Beach. And I think I've heard about this, it was in the local paper. I hope by some freak medical accident she lives, though. :(
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She's dead, bro. :(
 
OK, he hopes for a freak medical accident to bring her back to life.
 
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