Florida Teen Dies of Complications Following Breast Augmentation

That is very very sad. I believe that eighteen is too young to make such a decission. If I were a parent I would encourage my child to at least finish college first. She should be focused on her studies and not her figure. I do not think that a person that young should be pt to sleep unless it is absolutely needed. Did you know that Anesthesiologist are the doctors who are sued the most. To many people die from this. It just breaks my heart to here this. My niece got her behind augmented when she was eighteen. My sister tried to talk her out of it, but she did it anyway.

Well this is a type of "warped" I've not really seen in awhile. Sad she lost her life... I still have to ask, what in the world was everyone thinking on this? This surgery is not needed, completely pointless... and teens think its just fine. Whats worse is that some parents actually sponsor this kind of thing for their daughters with an incomprehensible reckless abandon. Hopefully this will serve as an eyeopener, but I'll not hold my breath.

As this is a sad and tragic story, I can't help but wonder why a lot of teens are not satisfied with what they already have. Partly, I think it is the media's fault, for defining what is beautiful and accepted by the norms. My heart goes out to teens today who feel unsatisfied of their natural gifts.

That is sad but there is always a chance when you have surgery of something going wrong. It is very possible she had a reaction to the anistetic. I don't see why these girls need to go out and make their chest bigger. May god be with their family through this hard difficult time.

Im wondering why at 18 she was having this surgery. If it was purely cosmetic. I read she had inverted nipples. My 18 yr old cousin is getting this for graduation. I do not care for this trend. I think you are still growing at that point. I think 21-25 should be the youngest age.

This is so sad, I feel for all who knew her. So much promise and then poof gone. I think we as a society really have to look at this trend. Why is it we continuely buy in to this image of perfection. Why do we not put a greater value on our education, or our contributions to the world. Sometimes I really worry about our future when I see what our chidren feel is important. What is really scary is we cannot blame the children, it is us. Our society that has cultivated this goal for the perfect image. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

This is really terrible! parents should not encourage their daughters to undergo cosmetic surgery at a very young age. Plastic surgery as gift for high school graduate is not a good idea.

That is very sad but happens all the time. It's labeled as tragic when it's for a necessary surgery, but when it's cosmetic surgery it makes one think why? I think our society is very screwed up when we give the gift of cosmetic surgery for graduating high school. Geez, what ever happened to giving a card? or a car for the spoiled kids?

There is a major misfire in society when an 18 year old girl feels she needs a boob job. Shoot I wish I had my 18 year old boobs. I'm not anti surgery and any surgery at all has extremely high risks but the girl hadn't even had kids yet which is a reason that I would get them done if I had a ton of money to throw around. No boobs for me. :( But at 18, I would have never even thought of such a thing. I was focused on college and wondering how my parents could pay for it- which they couldn't. That is why I'm in college now. This is pretty sad when importance of a boob job is more important that educating yourself to become an active participant in society. Where were the people trying to talk her out of it. Surely, there could have been someone that could have influenced this decision, other than the media who thinks that an 18 year old getting a boob job is ok. She was a very pretty girl as well who would have gotten along fine in this beauty based society without the fake boobs which is another thing I can't figure out. It's very sad that our priorities are in the wrong place nowadays.