Should Warner Brothers Give Money To Victims?

The idea that Warner Brother’s should donate money from this weekends opening earnings, to the victims and victims families that were involved in the shooting at a Dark Knight Rises midnight showing at Century 16 in Aurora, Colorado is growing. I guess I don’t quite understand why this is growing? Warner Brother’s didn’t pay this guy and weren’t involved. It isn’t like this was a media stunt gone awry. Why should Warner Brother’s be expected to give money to these families? Why is it that some people are saying they should at least pay medical cost involved?

This incident was a very sad and tragic thing to happen to our country. It wasn’t the first and it won’t be the last of such events. It made us think about our safety at one of America’s and becoming the world’s favourite things to do in our spare time. It made that safety blanket of fun and excitement go away. The victims in that auditorium in that theatre that survived are more than likely just happy to be alive. I know that I would be happy. I wouldn’t be expecting any money to come my way from this. The people and families that lost people in that auditorium are, I’m sure, quite sad. But no amount of money is going to replace the lost, or make that pain go away. Again, I would be sad if I lost someone in this, but I wouldn’t expect some kind of payout from it either.

Now with all of that said, I would like to say that I would be surprised if Warner Brother’s doesn’t do something for the victims. It however, shouldn’t be expected and they shouldn’t be harassed if they end up not doing anything. I’d also like to say to the people complaining about not being able to dress up to go to your showing of Dark Knight Rises, please remember it is a small sacrifice that you’re making compared to those that were in that auditorium at Century 16.

 

Avery’s Bucket List

Today I came across a blog that broke my heart. It is about a little 5 month old baby, who has a disease that is the number one genetic killer of infants in the United States. The catch? No one has really heard about this disease despite it being the number the top reason for infants deaths related to genetics. This disease is called Spinal Muscular Atrophy or SMA for short. For me it is hard to explain and I think you should and definitely will want to checkout the blog(link below).

Avery’s Bucket List is a blog that was started from Avery’s “point-of-view”. She is the voice of the writings, which I think makes it even more touching. Avery has a bucket list of all the things that she won’t ever get to do because most infants die by 18 months or somewhere in between. Some of the stuff are easy things that any baby eventually does, other things are stuff that she wouldn’t do for many, many years. An example of one of these is going on a college tour. In one post they visit a college where her dad went to school and that will be her college tour cause she will never get the chance to go to preschool, let alone college. I think the two saddest things in the posts are how sometimes her mommy or daddy have said references to movies or music, and from Avery she says, “whatever that means”. It makes me sad to think that she will never get to know what those mean. The other sad thing is one post talks about how they upgraded their car and bought a bigger house to have room for their growing family. It really just tugs at your heartstrings.

In reality her mother and father are the ones doing these writings(of course). They are hoping that the blog would go viral(and it has) to get the message fo this genetic killer out there. There is a test for this, but many times doctors don’t give the test to see if the parents are carriers of the gene. Their number one goal is to get on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to spread the awareness. On May 1 they are asking that people email and call and tweet Ellen to try and get her to have them on the show. I hope they are able to do so…

I have to say that these two parents are a lot stronger than I think I would be. I cannot imagine being giving the gift of a little baby and then finding out that sometime in the next 18 months she is going to leave you forever. These two are remaining strong and still smiling even through all of this and are spending and enjoying the little time they are going to have with their little girl. Stay strong…

Links:

Avery’s Bucket List

Avery’s Bucket List Facebook Page