[ WP ] `` Kill the child , it 's the right thing to do . ''

`` I ca n't just pull the plug on my own son, doctor!'' 
 
 **Beep. Beep. Beep. ** 
 
 `` M'am. I'm sorry. But there's nothing left we can do for him.'' 
 
 `` Is n't there some kind of procedure, some kind of surgery?!'' 
 
 `` The kind of operations needed to repair such damage to the brain and heart are not only expensive, they also have a low margin of success.'' 
 
 **Beep. Beep. Beep. ** 
 
 `` There's a chance though, right? Is there a chance he'll survive?'' 
 
 `` Even if he does survive, he'll be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, require constant visits to the hospital, and lose almost all of his cognitive ability!'' 
 
 `` He's just a boy though!'' 
 
 **Beep. Beep. Beep. ** 
 
 `` M'am. You have to let go. It's either he dies or he lives the rest of his life as a miserable husk. I have to be honest with you. I would never like to see a child in a state like that.'' 
 
 `` I ca n't...'' 
 
 `` Just sign this paper, Mrs. Green. It will be over very soon. I promise.'' 
 
 **Beep. Beep. Beep. ** 
 
 `` You promise he wo n't feel any pain when he has to...'' 
 
 `` I promise, m'am. I swear that he wo n't feel a thing, on my life.'' 
 
 `` Very well, give me a pen.'' 
 
 **Beep. Beep. Beep** 
 
 **Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. ** 
 
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 Thus did a young Billy Nguyen die that day, on November 28th, 2013. He was only one of many young children who died a victim of an alcohol-impaired driver's terrible, terrible mistake. 
 
 His mother mourned over him for many years to come, still crying even today.
