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« on: Jun 8th, 2006, 6:40am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
on Jun 8th, 2006, 4:50am, Colleen wrote:
This a beautiful picture, thought I would share it.  I guess they got paid 4.5 million for the first pic from People but from what I understand the money will be going to charidy.  Which is good.
 

 
I noticed this in the upper right corner of the magazine cover... if you've not heard about this, it's horrid.  A car accident, only one of the girls survived.  She and another girl in the car (who was killed) we both badly burned and faces unrecognizable.  They parents of the girl who died identified the body... only to find out weeks later, as the other girl started coming out of the coma, that they'd mixed up the two girls.. so the family who THOUGHT their daughter was still alive, now find theirs was the one who died.. and the family who thought they'd buried their daughter find that theirs is alive and in the hospital...  
 
Here's a link to the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/wireStory?id=2026681
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« Reply #1 on: Jun 8th, 2006, 10:29am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
How awful for them both.  Cry
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« Reply #2 on: Jun 16th, 2006, 1:27pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
i have just read about this in an australian magazine. I find it hard to fathom how such a thing can happen?
 
I have heard of stories where bodies at morgues/funeral homes are mixed up but to actually make such a mistake where one person is still alive in just completely unbelievable!!!!!!
 
I'm still reeling at the thought that the poor dead girls parents didn't even realise it wasn't their daughter lying in a coma..................could you really not recoginise your own child?  I understand that due to injuries and medical equipment that identification may have been difficult but goodness surely a parent must be able to see some sort of difference?
 
Regardless of the loved ones not being able to tell.......this should never have happened.............for 3 weeks one family grieved and "buried" their daughter only then to find out she was alive and the other family....well what can you say.......I feel very deeply for them....to find that the daughter you thought was alive was in fact killed is just horiffic.
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I have read the article as well, and my understanding is that the girls were both of similar stature and build, and at the time had the same hair color, and the girl who lived, her face was so swollen, that they were unable to distinguish which girl it was.  The coroner incorrectly identified her as the wrong girl, and the family wanted to beleive very much that their daughter was alive...
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« Reply #4 on: Jun 16th, 2006, 11:06pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
as well the faily of the girl believed to be dead did not want to see their daughter to identify her bc they were told the damages to her body was devestating.
 
 
It's sad all the way around that such young people no longer have a future Sad
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