chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling) (11/11/90)
In article <26693.273c1957@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Jack Petrino (petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) writes: > > >Dear NetFolks, > >We would appreciate your responding to the request of Craig Shergold who >is a seven year old boy with an inoperable tumor on his brain. > >He has not been given a very long time to live and it is Craig's ambition >to enter the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest number of get >well cards ever received by an individual. > >Stuff deleted (specifically the address). NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!!! There are two reasons not to do this. 1) The kid has already gotten the most cards and has gotten his name in the Guiness Book. There was a newpaper article about a month ago in which the family requested (begged, pleaded) that no more cards be sent. They are just piling up unopened and may end up in the garbage. 2) Isn't something like this pointless? In a few months, another dying kid will want his name in the Guiness Book, too. My heart too goes out to dying children. But why spend $2 on a card and $0.25 on postage that will end up in the garbage? Why not send $2 to one of the cancer charities, where it might do some good. Say the kid receives 100,000 cards. That's $200,000, which would go a long way towards cancer research. How about the Craig Shergold charity fund, and competition to raise the most money to fight inoperable brain tumors. -- Conrad Halling chh9@midway.uchicago.edu