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AngelWings8
07-07-2011, 06:57 PM
Oh my goodness, have you guys read this article? :eek: (not sure if this belongs in General Chat or a different forum...)

Girl ends life to donate eyes to dad - Times Of India (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-04/india/29735331_1_kidney-transplant-eye-surgery-girl-ends-life#)


Girl ends life to donate eyes to dad
Ashis Poddar, TNN Jul 4, 2011, 12.15am IST

NADIA: For days, Mumpy would listen quietly as the elders discussed how only an eye surgery could save her father's vision and a kidney transplant her brother's life. But both surgeries were beyond the family's meagre means. So, Mumpy hit upon a plan, which to her 12-year-old mind seemed the answer to all troubles. She would kill herself, which would save the dowry, too, and her organs would give her loved ones back their lives.

Mumpy did stick to her plan. But the suicide note in which she had scribbled down her wishes was found the day after she was cremated.

The incident took place in Dhantala's Jhorpara on June 27. Her father's and brother's ailments had left Mumpy Sarkar, a Class VI student, anxious. One of the kidneys of her brother Monojit, a Class XI student, was damaged and the other was getting weak. Father Mridul Sarkar, a daily wager, was also gradually losing his eyesight.

"The family had approached the local MLA for help. We had decided to grant them some money for the boy's treatment. But the tragedy happened all of a sudden," said Dhantala panchayat pradhan Tapas Tarafdar.

Mumpy had taken elder sister Monica, a Class VIII student, into confidence and had urged her to commit suicide as well for the "cause". When Mumpy told Monica about her plan on the morning of June 27, the latter laughed it off and left for school. Their father was away at work and mother Rita had gone to fetch rice.

"Finding herself alone at home, Mumpy consumed Thiodan, a pesticide. Then, she ran to meet her father, who was about half a kilometre away. She told him that she had dreamt that someone had poured poison into her mouth and her stomach ached. Her alarmed father took her to a local pharmacy immediately where she was given some medicines. But her condition worsened soon and she had to be rushed to the local Baranberia hospital. From there, she was referred to Anulia hospital. But the doctors declared her brought dead," Tarafdar said.

It was only the day after her cremation that Mumpy's father found a note on her bed. Addressed to her mother, the girl requested her to make use of her eyes and kidney for the treatment of her father and brother. This left the aggrieved family inconsolable. "We were too late in understanding the feelings of a very sensitive child," Mridul wept. Mumpy's mother has gone into shock.

Del Murder
07-07-2011, 07:09 PM
Whoa, that's crazy. Pretty sure her organs wouldn't have helped them though since she was so young.

Quindiana Jones
07-07-2011, 07:19 PM
No need to patronise the girl, Del.

Seriousness aside, that's pretty incredible. Morbid and tragic, yes, but that's one hell of a kid.

Peegee
07-07-2011, 07:49 PM
WTF and they still didn't get to use her organs?

asdklfjsladfj FUUUUUUUU

sharkythesharkdogg
07-07-2011, 07:55 PM
That is fucking sad. What a sweet kid, but just ugh. Makes your stomach hurt just thinking about the situation.

Proto made a thread about irony, and this is the best/worst example I've seen lately.

NorthernChaosGod
07-07-2011, 09:36 PM
Is Mumpy a real name? :confused:

KentaRawr!
07-08-2011, 12:58 AM
Is Mumpy a real name? :confused:

The point










Your head

TrollHunter
07-08-2011, 01:38 AM
Oh my god that's terrible.

NorthernChaosGod
07-08-2011, 02:11 AM
Is Mumpy a real name? :confused:

The point










Your head

This is GC, suck it. :p

DMKA
07-08-2011, 02:14 AM
I TOLD YOU I WAS HARDCORE

fire_of_avalon
07-08-2011, 04:52 AM
I think that's probably the saddest thing I've heard in my whole life.

Old Manus
07-08-2011, 10:42 AM
Whoa, that's crazy. Pretty sure her organs wouldn't have helped them though since she was so young.And the fact that she'd just poisoned herself

Loony BoB
07-08-2011, 11:18 AM
What a waste. Pretty sad that such things can happen in this world, or that a twelve year old can think that her father's eyesight is more important to her dad than his daughter's life.

Laddy
07-08-2011, 01:49 PM
That's awful. :(

Pike
07-08-2011, 04:32 PM
I am going to be sad forever.

Shiny
07-09-2011, 06:40 PM
Omg, that's so messed up. :(

Moral of the story: leave your suicide notes in a more visible place? O_O