Universität Ulm, Fakultät für Mathematik und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Administrative Hinweise, Kettenbriefe

Kettenbriefe: Letzter Wunsch eines krebskranken Kindes

Folgenden Kettenbrief ist ein sehr schlechter ``Scherz'', den sich jemand aus den Fingern gesogen hat, da er nicht im mindesten auf wahren Tatsachen beruht. Die ``American Cancer Society'' nimmt Spenden entgegen und verteilt sie nicht etwa an individuelle Kranke, sondern im wesentlichen für die Krebsforschung. Mehr Informationen dazu gibt es bei

Hier ist der Kettenbrief, so wie er mir zugeleitet wurde, wobei ich allerdings die gefälschten Absendernamen mit X-Buchstaben überschrieben habe:

Please read this short poem, upon the request of a little girl dying
of cancer.

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids
on a merry-go-round
or listened to the rain
slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's
erratic flight
or gazed at the sun into the
fading night?

You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last

Do you run through each day
on the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
running through  your head?

You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow
And in your haste,
not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
to call and say "Hi"?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last

When you run so fast to get
somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting
there.

When you worry and hurry through
your day,
It is like an unopened gift...
Thrown away...

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Subject: please help
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO HELP THIS LITTLE GIRL

Dear All,

I just received this mail from a friend of mine in my
College.  Please respond to it.  It will just mean employing
a little bit of time and won't cost you a penny.  All it
needs is the heart for you to send this mail.  PLEASE pass
this mail on to everybody you know.  It is the request of a
little girl who will soon leave this world as she has been
a victim of the terrible disease called CANCER.

Thank you for your effort, this isn't a chain letter, but
a choice for all of us to save a little girl that's dying
of a serious and fatal form of cancer.  Please send this to
everyone you know...or don't know.

This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying
wish, she wanted to send a chain letter telling everyone to
live their life to fullest, since she never will.  She'll
never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get
married and have a family of her own.  By you sending this
to as many people as possible, you can give her and her
family a little hope, because with every name that this is
sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per
name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this
to 500 people!!!
So, I know that we can send it to at least 5 or 6.  Come
on you guys...and if you're too selfish to take 10-15 minutes
scrolling this and forwarding it to EVERYONE, then
you are one sick person.

Just think it could be you one day.  It's not even your money,
just your time!!!

PLEASE PASS ON
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Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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Andreas Borchert, 17. Februar 1999