Last Friday in Your Turn I asked all of you what you would do if you only had 30 days to live. Well, Lisa Connell has inoperable brain cancer. She was diagnosed in 2006 and really doesn't know how much longer she has left to live. Well, her desire and wish is to spend $60,000 on plastic surgery so she can spend the rest of her life looking like her idol, Demi Moore.
Wow. Well, I guess it is her life and we shouldn't judge how she wants to spend the last part of her life. Just think if they came up with a cure though, do you think she would regret spending all of that money to look like Demi? Is she she doing it because she wants to see what it would be like, or because she has nothing else on which to spend her money?
"People think I'm crazy for doing this, but I know it will make my last months or years happier. When I was young I used to watch Demi Moore in films like Ghost and I longed to look like her. I want to die beautiful, so this is my way of taking back control of my body."
Judging from the photo above, which is courtesy of US Weekly, I would say that she is really beautiful as it is and definitely doesn't need to look like Demi Moore. With that being said, who am I to advise someone what to do when they have an indeterminate amount of time left to live. Also, I think that when it comes to plastic surgery, it really is up to the person getting the surgery. If it makes them happy, then that is really all that matters.
Demi has said that she thinks the woman is already beautiful and doesn't want her to get the plastic surgery.
Agreed on all points.
ReplyDeleteI thought you had to be in good health before you could have plastic surgery. Does anyone know this is true?
ReplyDeleteI guess since she's terminal and its her money, she has a right to be selfish. Still distasteful and a little stupid, though.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Does anyone know IF this is true?
ReplyDeleteI think she is already beautiful. Altho she may not look like that now. I'm sure chemo and the disease itself has taken a toll on her looks.
ReplyDeleteDemi added that the price was about what she paid.
ReplyDeletesuch a shame she can't value her own beauty.
ReplyDeletecosmetic surgery really can't make you look like someone else. it never works out that way. she can get all this shit done, and when the swelling goes down and she looks in the mirror, it's not going to be demi looking back at her.
ReplyDeletethe sad thing to me is she's willing to undergo elective surgery---which is not without risks---during her final days. why spend what little time you have that way? talk about misplaced values.
i would hope she won't find a surgeon who will agree to this, but of course, she will.
If she was a gclose friend of mine, I'd try my bet to talk her out of this decision. She could donate the $$ to a charity or leave it for loved ones, but instead she wants to die beautiful... And she already is!!!! :P
ReplyDeleteThing is, the most likely outcome is after the surgery she'll just look like someone who's had lots of surgery.
Anyways, lots of women who aren't dying do ths kind of shit, so I guess it's just as justifiable...
still....
GOOD FOR DEMI
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ReplyDeleteI was wondering if this were really true, too? Or if she maybe made the comment in passing to someone, and the British and US tabs jumped on it in the wake of all the Jade Goody publicity. Then, it blew up when Demi twittered about it...
Has anyone seen an interview with this woman? Just curious. I think she is gorgeous as is, and I hope she finds some way to be happy and at peace.
I can't condemn this woman...hell, most of us said (at least in part) we'd spend a good amount of our last 30 days under the influence...so to each their own. I don't think she needs it, she's already beautiful, but hell...it's her life and, ultimately, her death.
ReplyDeleteMy first question is, "why is this public news, why do we care?". I thought maybe she was asking for donations, which is why she needed the publicity.
ReplyDeleteew.
How long is the recuperation period? Why spend what few days you have left feeling like hell, bruised up, laying in bed wrapped up like a mummy? It know it's a final wish and all, but I've never heard a story where this kind of plastic surgery is ever successful.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to this young lady. It's still sad.
Isn't anybody SANE anymore? This woman is a fuck-wit. Maybe the brain tumour is clouding her judgement.
ReplyDeleteIt does make you wonder if the tumor has affected some part of her brain that deals in deep thinking, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine any doctor agreeing to do the surgeries--based on her health.
ReplyDeleteDemi spoke of this on her Twitter account last week!
ReplyDeleteWell, she's got the brain cancer so maybe that's why she's thinking of such fucked up behavior. I am not aware of any cancer victim that looks hot at death. Plastic surgery or not.
ReplyDeleteShe's not in good health. I doubt it'll be done.
ReplyDeletegood god,a tumour is clearly not her only problem.
ReplyDeletebrain tumour or not, this is not a person who is all there.
if she weren't sick, we'd all call her nuts.
I cannot even comment on this...SAD. Why would you spend money to look like someone else?
ReplyDelete"Isn't anybody SANE anymore?"
ReplyDeleteOHHH...YOU MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD AT WORK!
live fast, die young, leave a pretty corpse hahaha
ReplyDeletewait, thats not funny :(
The sad truth is that she likely won't know who the hell Demi Moore even is in a few months.
ReplyDeleteI would rather take the $$$ and take ALL my family on a vacation to the most gorgeous place I could find. That's just me. I'd rather have a great memory then a pretty me. God Bless her she should do what she wants.
ReplyDeleteIf she's in the final stages, even if they found a cure tomorrow she'd still die. After a certain point the damage the cancer causes can't be fixed even if the cancer is eliminated.
ReplyDeleteAlso, any newly formulated treatment takes three to five years to be developed. There are no overnight miracles. It's a tired cliche from the movies.
I would rather spend it on drugs and party til I died.
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