Boy Gets Bear Wish Then Dies
 

http://www.11alive.com/news/article_...?storyid=98349



This is one amazing story of a little boy's adventure.

Bless his heart. I hope we will all extend prayers for this family. I think it's horrible for any family to lose a child, but at least this family knows their baby died very happy and content with his memories.

I passed an accident this afternoon on North Market. It had just happened and it looked to me like a pedestrian had been hit by a car. I found out this evening that it was a 9 y/o child hit and the child has passed away. Please keep this family in your prayers as well.

Maybe the idea of bear hunting was the only thing that was keeping him going. Those bastards took his dream away from him by making it a reality.

There you go again, but there is some truth there. But now he died happy, dreams fulfilled.

So am I the only person who finds it a little disgusting that the last dying wish of this boy was to murder something else?

Apparently. Shooting animals is fun.

I think it is more of a adrenalin rush. I am sure it made the boy happy to reach a goal he had set for himself. It sounds like he did die happy and that is a very good thing. :clap:

So is shooting cans, bottles, and targets, except they don't suffer pain and/or death as a result of being shot.

Now it would be a different story if the kid was going to eat the meat or make a coat out of the fur, or the animal was impressive enough to warrant having it stuffed and mounted....but I seriously doubt that was ever the intention and the more likely scenario is that the entire carcass was discarded and I simply cannot condone the needless destruction of life for no greater purpose than entertainment.

I don't condone such waste either, but the article doesn't say what they did with the carcass. I doubt they just shot it and left it. Safari Club International arranged the trip. They no doubt arranged proper disposal of the bear if the family didn't want it.

I don't particularly care for the killing of innocent animals either BUT I would make an acception for MY dying baby. I'd kill the bear myself if my child could die happy!:peace:

Vey good Pokie, My feelings exactly. As long as he died happy that is all that matters.:goodpost2: :bravo:

Good point, except which do you think would be MORE beneficial to the environment. Proper disposal, or leaving the bear where it died, as would have happened if the bear had died of natural causes, and letting nature take it's course?

You see, that's why I don't have a problem with hunting for resources....that's what we would be doing "in the wild" anyway.

They do not hunt trophy's just to let it rot in the woods :nono: I am sure the parents of that child had that animal processed and taxidermy-ed and will cherish it for a very long time. The population is monitored and tags are issued for a certain about of bears. The tags are for adult male bears and the hunter only gets a tag in draw the state does each year so not every one gets a tag. Game management :clap:

Very well said. If it was my child I know I would have the bear stuffed so I would have a memory of my son and his last wish.
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I don't think some people (those without children) understand how precious a child is. I have seen families with these sick children with cancer and there is not a doubt in my mind that they would do WHATEVER that child wants so it is happy. The rest of us would as well too.

I know it's nice for you mothers to believe that you would do anything for your children and that money would never be an object....but that's generally not the case, especially when you've been battling cancer for several years.

Having a full-size animal the size of a black bear stuffed and mounted would easily cost a couple of thousand dollars AND I think the story would have mentioned the parents were utilizing said corpse as a memorial if that was the case...

SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!:piethrow: :arrow: :whip: :poke: :shoethrow:

They tan the hide and head and make a rug out of it. Full body mounts are rare do to the cost. Still a trophy in the boys eyes and his family. Bear meat to boot. You can try to spoil this all you want but it is like your avatar thread going no where :nono:

Eating bear meat is not only uncommon, it's practically unheard of, and I suspect the number of Americans who have actually eaten bear meat is considerably less than 1% of our total population and has probably never exceeded more than 5% of the total global population in the history of our plant. This is purely recreational game and there are significantly easier prey roaming the wilderness.

The rug IS a considerably cheaper memento of the child's death (which is REALLY sickening, but that's another topic), but again, I think the story would have specified this detail had that been the case.

At any rate, after a good night's sleep, I'm thinking more along the lines of the people who hosted the hunt claiming the carcass in exchange for covering all the expenses of the "free" hunt.

Here goes shoot from the hip numbers man again. You might want to check those numbers out with the people in states that have bears. I think Alaska might be a good start and you will find the homeless shelters feed bear meat donated to the homeless people. I bet you will not hear them complain with their mouth full. So when you have a mouth full of beef, chicken or pork do you cry for the poor dead animal ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWdd...e=user&search=

I have personally never shot a bear (I'm a duck/dove hunter) but I have eaten bear meat.

In my younger days, I use to hunt deer, rabbit and squirrel. I see nothing wrong with hunting myself. It has been done for years. Do people think during the cowboy and Indians era they had grocery stores they could go buy a package of meat. Even during the depression people raised their own meat. Do you think they walked outside and said I want chicken today and a chicken killed hisself.

The Bear and the Swine ;) The male bear and swine go by the name (bore) and the females (Sal) and they both carry trichinosis. So if you eat either be sure and cook it well done.
The worms ate into his "brain" :note: :note: :note: