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What kind of awful title is that?????
I mean, why else would you sweep children into drains?
RIP little dude. My cousin died around the same age and also became an organ donor.
I thought I was the only one. Careless use of the word "to."
I thought it's an onion article. We need new organs. Sweep some 10 year old into a storm drain
What's awful about it? Unless you mean that it's a ten year old passing away, that is sad.
The unambiguous title should be,
"10-year-old swept into storm drain will become an organ donor, dad says"
The title used kinda sounds like the boy willingly swept into the drain "to" become an organ donor.
"is". They literally just needed to add the word "is" to make it clear.
10-year-old swept into storm drain is to become an organ donor, dad says
The frequency with which people have trouble with newspaper-headline grammar makes me feel old...
When English isn't your first language, this is a really confusing title.
It's weird when English is your first language, too. No one speaks or writes like this except in Newspaper headlines.
Feeling this myself right now.
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That's not really how that works though, so that misunderstanding is on the readers' part. One doesn't "swept" themself.
The other commentor has mentioned the correct phrase in the newspaper speak,
"10-year-old swept into storm drain is to become an organ donor, dad says"
Without the "is", the ambiguity exists.
One doesn't "swept" themself.
Why not? "Swept" is also the simple past tense of "sweep", in addition to the past participle used in passive voice.
Will simply have to disagree. This is perfectly normal for a newspaper headline and not ambiguous, to me.
The title makes it sound like the storm drain is some sort of organ harvesting machine and he was purposefully placed in there so his organs could be donated.
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The kid is going to save a lot of other lives by being an organ donor. I have no idea why people would opt out of being a donor.
People are convinced that if you are an organ donor doctors let you die on purpose.
People are morons.
It's kinda the opposite, because for the fire brigade and emergency services the existence of organ harvesting incentives even 'lost causes' to be saved.
If you're in the sort of country where people will kill you for your organs, I don't think they're in the habit of asking permission first...
Even dumber when you realize the hospital absolutely doesn't need a little card to let you die.
Yeah, for decades I’ve heard that theory too. I’ve always thought of it as an urban myth.
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Don't forget you can also donate your corpse to medical schools!
My father did this. He signed up for his body to be donated to science. He always told me, the minute he passes, there's a card in his wallet with a phone number. Just call them and they'll come out to pick up his body. That's it; no funeral or anything. He didn't believe in wasting money on a funeral or burial plot/coffin after he was dead. When they're done with their research, they'll return his cremated remains to us.
Sadly, I had to call that number a few months ago.
Your dad was a smart man. I too plan on avoiding the scummy funeral industry!
I too plan on avoiding the scummy funeral industry!
Uh... well.. about scummy industries... I have what is perhaps slightly depressing news on that.
Your father is helping train the next generation of doctors!
In the US, at least, I believe you cannot specifically donate to medical schools. Generally you indicate that you'd like to be used to medical research or teaching, but that can be a wide variety of things.
To be clear, I still support and advocate for this, but believe people should be informed.
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It should be be an opt out system rather than an opt in.
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Due to increased hurricanes and flooding we probably need a law that specifies storm drains have some type of safety grate. This isn't that rare either - years ago a friend's daughter died after being sucked into a drainage pipe.
Kids dying this way is 100% expected given the braindead design of US storm drains
I never actually thought about this.
Why exactly are storm drains designed like that with a opening for little kids to get sucked in?
Do other countries (with similar weather) have the same problems?
We have the grate in the floor, but not the massive openings that clown monsters live in.
The one on that picture is actually okay, I've seen way bigger openings.
Never seen them outside North America.
This 3 foot pipe is also considered a storm drain. Unclear in the article if he was sucked down a street drain with unnecessarily large opening, or a drain for a creek.
To lessen debris getting stuck. No idea if it's effective.
We have similar drains in Australia, I don't think it's particularly common but I have seen them get completely clogged in a big storm. Nearly flooded our friends house because they lived at the bottom of a hill.
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Why don't they add a grid? That's completely unsafe
Not here.
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As a father of a four-year-old, this story makes me want to fucking puke. Swept into a storm drain is one of the most horrific ways I could imagine losing my little girl.
What an amazing gesture and selfless decision by a family living my worst nightmare. That is achingly beautiful.
We all float down here Georgie
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