Hayley Okines, Beloved Teenager Trapped In 104-Year-Old Body, Passes Away At 17

[joeybee12]

Hayley Okines, the courageous 17-year-old from England with a rare and fatal condition that prematurely aged her body nearly eight times faster than normal, passed away Thursday night. Her mother, Kerry, posted the announcement on Facebook: “My baby girl has gone somewhere better. She took her last breath in my arms at 9.39pm x.”

Hayley, who penned the autobiography Old Before My Time at the age of 14 and was known as Britain’s 100-year-old teenager (her body had aged to 104 at the time of her death), suffered from Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome, also known as HGPS or Progeria.

https://www.yahoo.com/health/hayley-okines-beloved-teenager-trapped-in-104-115400906402.html

Difficult short life, but she made the best of it...safe passage.

[liberal_at_heart]

1. Always a shame when a life is cut so short.

RIP Hayley.

[irisblue]

2. sleep sweet little sister

[chillfactor]

3. what a courageous young lady she was..

May she rest in peace....

[tularetom]

4. That brought tears to my cynical old eyes

RIP Hayley

[shenmue]

5. What a smile

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. rip

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Makes you wonder if the trigger could go the other way....

Imagine life expectancy going to 800 years.

[raven mad]

8. She made it that far - unusual, and her beauty

won't be forgotten.

Thank you for the post.