Santa grants a final wish

“I told her, ‘OK, just let me change into my outfit.’ She said, ‘There isn’t time for that. Your Santa suspenders are good enough. Come right now.’ ”

Schmitt-Matzen got to the hospital in 15 minutes. He met the lad’s mother and several family members.

“She’d bought a toy from (the TV show) PAW Patrol and wanted me to give it to him,” he said, voice growing husky. “I sized up the situation and told everyone, ‘If you think you’re going to lose it, please leave the room. If I see you crying, I’ll break down and can’t do my job.’ ”

Nobody entered with him. They watched, sobbing, from a hallway window in the Intensive Care Unit.

I’m now going to relay what happened next, just as Schmitt-Matzen spoke to me. Space does not allow inclusion of the numerous pauses he took while struggling to maintain composure:

“When I walked in, he was laying there, so weak it looked like he was ready to fall asleep. I sat down on his bed and asked, ‘Say, what’s this I hear about you’re gonna miss Christmas? There’s no way you can miss Christmas! Why, you’re my Number One elf!

“He looked up and said, ‘I am?’

“I said, ‘Sure!’

“I gave him the present. He was so weak he could barely open the wrapping paper. When he saw what was inside, he flashed a big smile and laid his head back down.

‘“They say I’m gonna die,’ he told me. ‘How can I tell when I get to where I’m going?’

“I said, ‘Can you do me a big favor?’

“He said, ‘Sure!’

“When you get there, you tell ’em you’re Santa’s Number One elf, and I know they’ll let you in.

“He said, ‘They will?’

“I said, ‘Sure!’

“He kinda sat up and gave me a big hug and asked one more question: ‘Santa, can you help me?’

“I wrapped my arms around him. Before I could say anything, he died right there. I let him stay, just kept hugging and holding on to him.

“Everyone outside the room realized what happened. His mother ran in. She was screaming, ‘No, no, not yet!’ I handed her son back and left as fast as I could.

“I spent four years in the Army with the 75th Rangers, and I’ve seen my share of (stuff). But I ran by the nurses’ station bawling my head off. I know nurses and doctors see things like that every day, but I don’t know how they can take it.’”

In despair, Schmitt-Matzen was ready to hang up his suit. “I’m just not cut out for this,” he reasoned.

But he mustered the strength to work one more show.

“When I saw all those children laughing, it brought me back into the fold. It made me realize the role I have to play.

“For them and for me.”

Holy shit man.

oh fuck.

>>91322
>>91323
lel tfw working as a veterinary epidemiologist.

The motto of the job is

>A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is just a statistic.

fucking Stalin

>>91352
What does working with animals have to do with a child that died in the arms of a man playing Santa?

>>91360
Beause he's edgy, but don't insult him he'll just get more edgy

Fuck man....

Thanks for sharing

Wew, been a few years since I've shed a tear.

>tfw so emotionally dead that the story did nothing for you
Why am I like this?

saw this on yahoo news
fucking crazy

Wow... That's tough

>>91312
god dam

holy fuck

>>91402
It made me feel a little but no tears. It comes from being beaten down so much

>>91312
I came here to argue about climate change, China, and gun laws, not to cry

fuck you op

>>91312
I was on the toilet choking up.
Then I read this story and cried.
Thanks for the feels, OP.

the kid is burning in hell for worshipping a false idol

the cancer was his punishment.

>>91544
What idol is he worshipping in

Damn that Schmitt-Matzen guy seems like a trooper.

A guy that dedicated to making children happy deserves nothing but good vibrations.

>>91314

>"for them and for me"

for you

I'm confused isn't Santa Claus a christian saint?

>>91585

Dont think about religious theology too hard or you end up sounding like a schizophrenic.

It's especially autistic when discussing the protestant catholic divide.

Especially

>>91585
nope, in fact he´s not related to Christianity at all
everything you see is a direct result of companies doing marketing, Coca-Cola in particular have promoted this red santa you know know so well

>>91313
>"you’re my Number One elf!"
>kid never produced a single toy

Why is this allowed?

>>91588
Where did he come from? Did Coca-Cola invent him? Why are Christians okay with this?

That fucking beard

>>91312
Soul crushing, and he still carries on.

>>91472
shit man, way to make me depressed

Read this as "Santa, can you help me," and he leaned in using his military martial combat skills to choke the kid out as fast as possible, immediately killing the dying child, ending his suffering.

>>91352
>Stalin
It's misattributed to Joseph Stalin, he might have never said anything like that, there's no historical account to make such a claim. The source is most probably "Französischer Witz" (1925) by Kurt Tucholsky.

>>91585
Santa Claus is completely unrelated, pulled from some pagan holiday.
Saint Nicholas is the saint, and he was kinda overlaid on top of the original Santa Claus story to christianify it up.

>>91594
Because christians don't go all spastic when one of their icons is used incorrectly, unlike muslims.

>>92294>>92294
They are not as bad as Muslims, but holy shit Christians will lose their shit over anything.

>news about something that only one person can confirm anecdotally

This shit didn't happen, you fags should stop being so gullible.

This is why I never do any charity work. Not worth the emotional baggage. This poor guy could not work for days?
Fuck that.
I give generously to my church and let them sort this shit out.

>>92327
You're paying them to rape kids, idiot.

That you anon, it's good to know there are great people out there.

>>91312
Oh my god. That is fucked up man. God man.

Oh my god.

>>92383
Athest fedora boy pls go

Atheists can fuck off from this thread, only Christians are charitable like this.

>>91544
>Oh look, another proddy that doesn't believe in the communion of saints from the Apostles' Creed

Enjoy hell for rejecting the teaching of Christ Jesus.

>>91587
>Dont think about religious theology too hard or you end up sounding like a schizophrenic.

Says a person who has probably never read anything on the subject of theology.

>It's especially autistic when discussing the protestant catholic divide.

Catholics have theology, Protestants don't and believe whatever they feel like at the moment. Not really that difficult.

>>91589
>underrated post

>>91314
>“I wrapped my arms around him. Before I could say anything, he died right there
Santa squeezed a frail boy too hard nd he died.
That should be the fucking headline.
Sick fucks

>>92296
What's the total # of casualties from the war on Christmas?

>>92880
Very Christian of you to judge others

>>92882
Kek

>>93525

Only one, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

That's a pretty fucking serious casualty if you ask me -- maybe next time you'll think twice before you say shit like "Happy Holidays."

Sorrow porn is not news.