Real Life Mermaid

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

http://www.break.com/index/real-life-little-mermaid.html

This is Shiloh Pepin, and she is one of the few survivors of a rare condition called sirenomelia.

 

[Sunny]

That is unbelievable

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I know.. I wonder how she goes to the bathroom if she has no organs down there.

 

[sabrina]

She died recently. Did you guys know that? I didn't watch the video, but I saw a documentary on her on TLC a year ago (I think) and heard about her death, which was like a month ago or something, I think. They were shocked she survived this long. The defect she has is rare and most people who get it either die much younger than her or are able to get their legs surgically detached from one another. She was able to do neither. I think she died of pneumonia. She was always getting sick and going to the hospital and it was finally too much for her.



Yea, I found an article about it here: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 2127.story



It explains briefly some about her condition and why she couldn't get her legs separated as well.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I was just reading some of the comments on that video. Some people are sick in the head.

 

[sabrina]

^ Ugh. I read the comments. They are disgusting. Especially since someone said,Ewww, kill it. I think that's the most offensive of all of them honestly because she IS dead right now and she never got to live a full life like the rest of us do. She didn't even get to live half the life that I have so far. I'm 23 and she died at 10. It's very sad and those people are disgusting. The internet helps us, though, see why there's bullying in schools I guess. People are genuinely that heartless.