At first glance, Hannah Jones seems like a preety normal teenager, but she was diagnosed
with cancer when she was 4 years old. She has had nearly a dozen operations in 8 years and
now she is suffering from condition that casuse the heart muscel to swell and in some cases
fail. In a bold move, the 13 year old has refused a heart tranplant that could save her life.
(영국소녀의 말) "There's too many risk involved even if I had it, it might not turn out good
so I could be worse than I am now."
Jones says she is not afraid of dying. She just dosen't want to spend any more time
in a hospital. (영국소녀의 말) "I have had a lot of experiences of hospitals, what
they are like, what they do in there on a day-to-day basis, it's just I have had too many
bad experiences in hospital and just don't want to go back there and stay there for another
month or so, it dosen't seem right to me." While Jones's parents supported her decision, it
didn't sit well with british medical officials. (Hannah 아버지의 말) "If we didn't take Hannah
into hospital, they were than going to get in touch with a judge, the judge would contact us,
he would then issue a court order, and if need be, they would forcbly remove Hannah from us.
The teen eventually gained the support of social worker leading health officials to drop their
plans for legal action. (영국소녀를 지지하는 사회사업가의 말) "When it comes to anything very
complex such as this, we need to ensure that the child understands not just the immediate direct
consequences of a decision but also the longer term." There is no determine how much longer
Hannah will live, but she says that she hasn't stopped her from dreaming of the day she makes
it to Disneyland. A charity had been willing to send her to the amusement park but she needs
to find an insurance company that will cover the rip first.
Carlotta Bradley, The Associated Press
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* diagnose : 진단하다
* swell : 부풀다, 팽창하다, 부피가 커지다, 곪아서 부어오르다
* bold : 대담한
* on a day-to-day basis : 하루하루 기준으로 -> 하루하루
* sit well with : (사람,사물에) 어울리다, 받아들여지다
* get in touch with : ~와 연락하다, 접촉하다
* issue : <명령·면허증 등을> 내다, 내리다, 발행하다, 발포(發布)하다
ex)《issue+목+전+명》 issue an order to soldiers 병사에게 명령을 내리다
