Dying dad walks 11 year old daughter "down the aisle" - Polidicks

Thought I would change the mood of SH for a little while..... [IMG]http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_jim_zetz_daughter_2_kb_140402_4x3_992.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] An 11-year-old girl from California walked down the aisle with her dying dad in a tear-jerking ceremony that pronounced the pair “daddy and daughter.” “It was not easy to do, let me tell you, but I wouldn’t change it for the world,” said Jim Zetz, 62, who has stage-4 pancreatic cancer and is expected to live only a few more months. “In twenty years, when she really gets married, she’s going to be happy that happened," he said. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/US/dying-dad-walks-11-year-daughter-aisle-heartbreaking/story?id=23161331"]SOURCE[/URL]

I didn't even have to read the article to get a tear in my eye, the picture was enough

God, cancer is the most depressing thing.

Jesus, that picture immediately gave me that pins and needles feeling all over. Heartbreaking and touching.

I don't know how I'd cope if I was told one of my parents only had months to live, especially at that age. So saddening.

It's heartbreaking, but it's inevitable if you decide to have a child when you're 51 years old.

Seriously, fuck cancer. If we could immediately cure anyone from 1 disease, it better fucking be cancer.

[img_thumb]http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_jim_zetz_family_2_kb_140402_4x3_992.jpg[/img_thumb] I'm not crying. I'm not crying. I'm not crying.

:c Not really relevant but damn, he was 51 when she was born?

My mom didn't get to be walked down the isle by her dad because of cancer. Seriously, fuck cancer.

Both of my grandfathers died from cancer...

[QUOTE=Adarrek;44434376]Both of my grandfathers died from cancer...[/QUOTE] My grandfather and my great grandfather both died of cancer. Seriously, screw cancer.

I promised myself I wouldn't cry!

[QUOTE=Mors Quaedam;44434320]I don't know how I'd cope if I was told one of my parents only had months to live, especially at that age. So saddening.[/QUOTE] speaking personally, it totally is, its the worst when they wont even wanna tell you, until they have like a "month to go" or something or even seeing them go through the chemo, losing all their hair, their strength and stamina, the will to even want to go through with treatment, or even being fucked over by a clinic, being told that they only have a few months to live, but the doctors are total fucking quacks and idiots, totally fucked up, make them go through many, many excruciating unnecessary operations and such (such as having various teeth pulled despite it not being needed), totally destroying patient-doctor trust with all the malpractice, and being able to live on for many more years when the cancer goes into remission yet was told they had one of the worst cancers you could possibly have, spreading all over to lymph nodes and having a few months to go at best, and having to had lived with that hanging over their head for so long ill stop now because im rambling on, but you have no idea, cancer fucking blows

fuck you cancer

I hope cancer gets cancer

[QUOTE=zeromancer;44434441]I promised myself I wouldn't cry![/QUOTE] I said I wouldn't cry and I didn't, no need to post about it.

Am i the only one who find it kind of disturbing? All the shit he could have imagined about his daughter on the earth, like high school graduation, getting in to college, or graduating college, but he thinks about her marriage, and walks her 11 years old daughter down the aisle. WTF? I am not even talking about the effects of his selfish and sick action on the poor little girl. Most people laugh and have good time on their weddings, but she will remember her dad, and feel like shit the whole wedding. Good job.

that's some pretty tense shit but at the same time it's sweet that he gets the chance to even do this if only she were actually getting married and was 10 years older [QUOTE=cucumber;44434569]Am i the only one who find it kind of disturbing? All the shit he could have imagined about his daughter on the earth, like high school graduation, getting in to college, or graduating college, but he thinks about her marriage, and walks her 11 years old daughter down the aisle. WTF? I am not even talking about the effects of his selfish and sick action on the poor little girl. Most people laugh and have good time on their weddings, but she will remember her dad, and feel like shit the whole wedding. Good job.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRSYhLn4RCI"]hey guy, like, seriously guy[/URL] way to be cynical as shit

[QUOTE=cucumber;44434569]Am i the only one who find it kind of disturbing? All the shit he could have imagined about his daughter on the earth, like high school graduation, getting in to college, or graduating college, but he thinks about her marriage, and walks her 11 years old daughter down the aisle. WTF? I am not even talking about the effects of his selfish and sick action on the poor little girl. Most people laugh and have good time on their weddings, but she will remember her dad, and feel like shit the whole wedding. Good job.[/QUOTE] Selfish and sick actions? Get over yourself. This is a girl who won't be able to see her dad ever again, I think being able to remember a time when she did walk down the aisle with her dad will be better than there never being the opportunity.

[QUOTE=cucumber;44434569]Am i the only one who find it kind of disturbing? All the shit he could have imagined about his daughter on the earth, like high school graduation, getting in to college, or graduating college, but he thinks about her marriage, and walks her 11 years old daughter down the aisle. WTF? I am not even talking about the effects of his selfish and sick action on the poor little girl. Most people laugh and have good time on their weddings, but she will remember her dad, and feel like shit the whole wedding. Good job.[/QUOTE] What are you even talking about?

[QUOTE=NikoChekhov;44434620]Selfish and sick actions? Get over yourself. This is a girl who won't be able to see her dad ever again, I think being able to remember a time when she did walk down the aisle with her dad will be better than there never being the opportunity.[/QUOTE] if I were her, even though he is dying, it would be a happy memory and I would celebrate his life and death when the time actually comes in his memory Death doesn't have to be an entirely sad thing after all.

Those photos from the event also have a free side of onions

Oh God the waterworks are trying to start.

I've lost a couple friends to cancer, and recently a friends best friend from another town died from it. She didn't even know her friend was sick. I'd do anything to have one more moment.

Who filled this house with onions?

Darn, cáncer is one of the most bad things that could happen to anyone. It breaks you slowly and in the end you can die but modern medicine can save you thou, only if it diagnosed at time. That brings back memories from my family tree, almost 2/3 of my parents mothers, grandparents, etc. died from cáncer or in a horrible way. Genes are the Devil incarnate.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was 6. I still remember being at the house while my grandma (mothers side) was watching over me and get the call. She just crumpled. I got to talk to her, but she was already sedated. My family told me it would be the last time I got to talk to her in a long time. From what they've told me, though I'm sure it's not true I just like to believe it is, is that after I said goodbye a single tear slipped down her cheek through the sedation and soon after she slipped away. I could hear all my family crying in the background and I was so confused. Too little to really understand it. Sorry for the rambling, but yeah I hate cancer.

Just went to a wedding over the weekend of a close friend of mine. Her dad passed away due to cancer a few years ago. She walked down the aisle by herself with a bouquet with his picture in it. One of the most touching things I have seen in a while.

[QUOTE=cucumber;44434569] I am not even talking about the effects of his selfish and sick action on the poor little girl. Most people laugh and have good time on their weddings, but she will remember her dad, and feel like shit the whole wedding. Good job.[/QUOTE] Come on... He's giving her the memory of him being by her side when she eventually marries someone in the future.