Top 10 List | Top Ten Lists

I recently read on the news how a 15-year-old boy, dying of leukemia, wanted the Hollywood hottie Cameron Diaz to give him a blowjob as his last dying wish. His father repeatedly called Cameron Diaz, but the response was always negative from the “heartless actress”.  But does this seem heartless or too much to ask from a celebrity, who may been as a pedophile

When Diaz didn’’t relent, his parents also tried to contact the agents representing Catherine Zeta Jones, Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek, but nobody cooperated. What times! A dying kid can’t even have a damn blowjob these days from a celebrity was what the father ranted.

There are others who had heartbreaking requests. As you read through the list you will feel a tremendous loss in this world. Some of these names are children, who had hopes and dreams of getting married, having children, graduating, but something terrible stood in their way.

Let’s examine the 10 heartbreaking stories about dying wishes and remember the souls that were lost. Their battles must not be forgotten.

1.  Brett Marie Christian

Palmyra High’s homecoming came early for the Sophmore Class of 2010. The dance traveled to the Monarch in Lincoln, where people go to die.

Brett Marie Christian, 15, was crowned homecoming queen that Saturday night and died 3 days later with her family all around.

The girl who loved horses and softball and Facebook and cartoons and peanut butter on a spoon had leukemia that was incurable. This is the kind that hits mostly adults and is the most dangerous kind, with only a 30 percent survival rate.

There were lots of things the high school sophomore knew she’d miss, including getting married, having kids, and growing old, but the only thing Christian wanted was one last dance.

Brett and her boyfriend, Treyton Carter, were able to dance the first dance in the commons room, with 50 or more of their classmates who were dressed for the party. Carter grew up with Christian, all the way through school and was very close with her, especially during the cancer battle. He would visit her every night; they watched TV, talked, cuddled and even kissed their first kiss.

The dress was bought for a bargain of $15.

2.  Barbara Rippel

Barbara Rippel devoted most of her life to raising her two children, Moly and Ryan. When Barbara discovered she had breast cancer, she did not have health insurance coverage. Despite being employed and being a well-known real estate agent, she died in debt. Her children wanted to make sure that does not happen to anyone else.

Before dying, Barbara wrote a letter to both her children. She wanted her children to use her as an example of why America needed universal health care. Both Molly and Ryan are now working to establish an organization to help people like their mother and do not have health insurance and do not qualitfy for income based or age based coverage, to get financial assistance and also pay for funeral arrangements.

“Use your gifts to make a difference and use your mom as an example of the need for universal health care.”
- Barbara Rippel

3. Colby Curtin

Colby Curtin got her final wish. The 10-year-old wanted to see the new Disney-Pixar movie, “Up.” But because she was cancer-stricken, Colby was too sick to go to a theater. So a family friend contacted someone at Pixar to see if they could help with making Colby’s dream coming true. The very next day, Pixar flew in an employee with a bag of “Up” memorabilia and a DVD version of the film. Together he and Colby’s family all watched the movie. The movie features a large plume of balloons released into the sky. Colby died 7 hours later. One of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard.

We have wishes for our kids. We want them to grow old, to get married and  to have kids. We also want to see them graduate. But when they are in such a state, you want every wish of your child to come true, whatever they may be.

4. Grandma Dorothy Ellis

This story is a tearjerker, so grab some tissues while you still can. A 92-year-old woman from Iola, Kansas, had a wish fulfilled by her family just six weeks before she died. Dorothy Ellis saw a man flying over her house in a motorized parachute and decided that she wanted to do the same thing before she died. So her family made her wish come true.

Dorothy’s granddaughter Holly and the hospice nurse who cared for Dorothy made arrangements for a pilot to fly over the family’s ranch house in southeastern Kansas. So on Sept. 18, 2012, on a crystal-clear day with blue skies above and green grass below, Dorothy was taken for the ride she had wished for in a rainbow-colored parachute and her son Tom was able to capture it all on video.

Dorothy died 6 weeks later.

5. Jennifer Linnabary

A dying mom got her wish when she was able to see her son graduate high school right from her hospital bed. Eighteen-year-old Ben Linnabary was able to fulfill his mother’s dying wish, working with the local school district to hold a private graduation ceremony in his mother’s hospital room. She died the next day. She was 52 years old.

Jennifer Linnabary suffered from a blood cancer called mantle cell lymphoma for four years. The year before, she was able to see her daughter get married, her final wish was to see her son graduate high school. As the mother’s condition worsened, family members worked tirelessly with the local school district to co-ordinate a special ceremony for February 2 at University of Cincinnati Hospital.

The video was posted on YouTube.

1. Andrew Jackson

This U.S. President suffered from emotion as well as physical problem. When inaugurated into office at the age of 62, he was extremely thin. He had just lost his wife to a heart attack. He himself was not in good health. He suffered from decaying teeth, chronic headaches, failing eyesight and bleeding inside his lungs. There were also two bullet wounds from two duels he participated in.

Of all presidential reputations, Andrew Jackson’s is perhaps the most tricky to sum up or explain. Most Americans recognize his name, though most almost certainly know him (in the words of a famous song) as the general who “fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans” in 1815. Many polls were taken between 1948 and 2009 and all of them ranked Jackson in or near the top ten presidents, among the “great” or “near great.”

Andrew Jackson left an everlasting imprint upon American politics and the presidency. Within eight years, he melded the shapeless coalition of personal followers who had elected him into the country’s most durable and successful political party, an electoral machine whose organization and discipline would become the basis for all others. In the meantime, his very contentious conduct in office spurred opponents to organize the Whig party. The Democratic party was his child; the national two-party system was his bequest on America.

2. Woodrow Wilson

He was the U.S. President to rule America during WWI.  The man suffered from extreme hypertension, headaches and double vision. Couple these conditions with a series of strokes that affected his right hand and leaving him unable to write for a year. Increasing strokes also left him blind in one eye and paralyzing on his left side.

He kept his paralysis a secret for most of his later years in presidency. Once it was discovered, the 25^th amendment was enacted to allow the VP to take power upon the death of the President, or even resignation or disability.

Wilson is most remembered for his 14 Points. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were first outlined in a speech Wilson gave to the American Congress in January 1918. Wilson’s Fourteen Points became the basis for a peace programme and it was on the back of the Fourteen Points that Germany and her allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918.

3. Grover Cleveland

Cleveland suffered all throughout life with obesity, nephritis and gout. He ultimately discovered a tumor in his mouth (jaw cancer) and underwent surgery to remove part of his jaw and hard palate.  Disfigured, but recovered, he died in 1908 of a heart attack.

He is well known for being the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.

4. William Taft

Taft suffered from morbid obesity – the extreme kind. He weighed over 300 lbs, making him the fattest president of the United States. Through aggressive dieting, he was able to lose almost 100 lbs, which he grew back and lost again through his lifetime.  He also suffered from sleep apnea, which caused him to miss his political meeting and high blood pressure and heart problems.

He is well known for creating a progressive system of checks and balances for the U.S federal government, which is still being used today.

5. Bill Clinton

Despite being an avid jogger, Bill Clinton has admitted to a weakness for fast food and a sweet tooth, both of which have placed strain on his arteries.

In 1997 a physical revealed that Mr Clinton had lowered his weight to 196 pounds from an unofficial high of 226 pounds in 1991. The physical reportedly measured his cholesterol level at 179, and his blood pressure at 122 over 68.

However, by his final presidential physical, Bill Clinton’s weight had risen again to 214 pounds, his cholesterol level had increased, and his blood pressure was climbing.

Psychological illness may vary from widely known irrational fears to post traumatic stress syndrome. Discussed herein are top ten psychological illnesses that affect millions of people globally in the present times.

1. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive compulsive disorder also referred to as OCD is psychological illness that is characterized by imaginations that creates stress or nervousness, by redundant behaviors or an amalgamation of such imaginations which are obsession and actions also known as compulsions. This may range from widespread hoarding, continuous hand washing or obsession with religious or aggressive desires.

2. Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is also referred to as bipolar affective disorder in medical quarters. In some instances it is also known as depressive disorder. This is whereby the person suffers from sensitive disorders that are identified by the existence of a single or multiple episodes of abnormal superior mood levels commonly known as mania. If it’s mild it is called hypomania. Patients with this condition are also known to undergo depressive signs or mixed emotions, i.e. mania and depression at the same time.

3. Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder is commonly known as social phobia or social anxiety. In a case where a person suffers from this particular condition, they become tremendously uncomfortable when around other people and will often suffer from anxiety when in a social setting. This is known to result in unnecessary stress or inability to function normally in some aspects of day to day life.

4. Clinical Depression

Clinical depression also known as severe depression disorder or Unipolar depression is a serious type of psychological disease. A person is said to be clinically depressed when without explanation are no longer interested in normal day to day activity that would have otherwise been referred to as normal.

5. Schizophrenia

A person is said to suffer from schizophrenia when there are irregularities in the discernment or expression of the things that are around them. When a person suffers from this disease, it may have a huge affect on their ability to hear, see, taste, smell and touch. In worse case scenarios it may result in peculiar delusions, hallucinations or slurred speech followed with a huge amount of social dysfunction. The level of schizophrenia ranges from one person to another. There are those who have psychotic episodes then in a short while carry on with their lives. On the other hand there are those who constantly suffer from it and require constant dependency from those around them.

Modern medicine had seen dramatic advancement at controlling various diseases affecting man. Nonetheless, there still remains an assortment of diseases that has no cure. Let us take a look at the list of top 10 incurable diseases that afflict many people every year.

1. Common Cold

The common is a viral infection that is defined as an acute type of ailment that initially affects the upper respiratory tract. In the more advanced cases, the infection reaches the lower portion and can cause secondary infections that affect the middle ears and the eyes.

2. Cancer

This incurable disease has more than 100 distinct forms which is generally defined by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal and invasive cells in the body.

3. Asthma

Asthma is a chronic disease affecting the lungs. It generally leads to the inflammation of airways and causes shortness of breath, coughing and wheezing.

4. AIDS/HIV

AIDS is a contagious disease that affects the immune system. HIV is the pathogen that causes AIDS. An individual that is afflicted by AIDS are prone to a wide variety of malignancies and infections.

5. Diabetes Type 2

This incurable disease impairs the metabolism of carbohydrates resulting to the inability of the body to produce insulin and maintain the normal level of blood sugar.