© New York TimesFor his last Christmas, Scott Jerome-Parks rested his feet in buckets of sand his friends had sent from a childhood beach.
As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose - which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe - be studied and talked about publicly so that others might not have to live his nightmare.
Sensing death was near, Mr. Jerome-Parks summoned his family for a final Christmas. His friends sent two buckets of sand from the beach where they had played as children so he could touch it, feel it and remember better days.
Mr. Jerome-Parks died several weeks later in 2007. He was 43.
Comment: These contributions have mainly benefited large corporations and pharmaceuticals. If Gates really wanted to help the masses and prevent diseases and deaths all he needed to do is set up a system that distributes the surplus food stocks to the millions of starving people and use his influence to prevent the US war machine from implementing it's "War on Terror" which has killed untold millions - not push vaccines to "prevent AIDS" when it's the vaccine itself that's most likely responsible for the epidemic to begin with. And beware those flying vaccines.