# Which would cause you more grief? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 25, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-would-cause-you-more-grief/995121 "2023-12-25T15:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-would-cause-you-more-grief/995121/8 "2023-12-27T03:32:23Z")
Some of the replies in your earlier thread were very insightful. > [@Thoughts on a young child's death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-a-young-childs-death/976235): > > My daughter’s niece (child of her husband’s sister) died today at age 2 1/2. She was born without a working kidney. Her kidneys were removed, and the past 2 1/2 years have been a continuous effort to get her to the point of receiving a kidney transplant. I think she spent her first year in the hospital, she has been on dialysis since day 1, and I could not estimate the number of major surgeries she had. She died after a series of surgeries and a week in PICU. I feel very sorry for the paren… (Meant as a reply to the OP, not myself) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-would-cause-you-more-grief/995121)._