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What a moving wonderful show. My little brother was "an accident," born with significant birth defects and my mother later told me she wished he had died as an infant to save him from all the suffering he was destined to go through. She had no control however. He survived, but struggled with the consequences and he never really recovered, at least emotionally. He felt he did not fit in and even tried physically to alter his appearance, as was explored on another one of your stories today. It did not work for him, he was miserable and at age 16 he chose to die. It destroyed our family and yet I still believe he had the right to die. With his death, our family buried our future. I don't believe any of us have the control, no matter what the science tells us, to design our children, ourselves or our future. Nature always finds a way to rule. Thank you for an exceptionally sensitive and thought-provoking show.