When Larissa met Ian at college in 2005, she never dreamed she'd one day be his wife ... and his caretaker. After a tragic accident left Ian without the ability to speak, walk or care for himself, she did what any woman in love would do: she married him.
True love should be as committed and sacrificial as this. What if this video was required as pre-marriage counseling for every young couple in the world? We think it could do some serious good. Pass it on.
Kelsey is an editor at Outreach. She’s passionate about fear fighting, freedom writing, and the pursuit of excellence in the name of crucifying perfectionism. Glitter is her favorite color, 2nd only to pink, and 3rd only to pink glitter.
"We saw some of the girls starting to cry; we saw some of the boys leaning down, literally on their knees, calling down between the train and the tracks, calling 'Sam, Sam'."
"My daughter is speechless and her eyes begin to glass over. I LOST MY MIND. I had a literal, physical reaction. I put my hand up and said 'STOP! She is 13'..."
"Keep repeating it until people understand: Vincent Lambert was not 'taken off life support.' He was starved and dehydrated for a week by the state until he died."
“Vincent is being killed intentionally through a denial of food and water. If we treated any other disabled person this way, it would be rightly seen as an outrageous injustice."
