MAX LAUTZENHEISER
Max Lautzenheiser enjoys a walk outside his home in the warm sunshine with help from his home nurses Aug. 30, 2008. Lautzenheiser was diagnosed with a rare terminal syndrome called Toriello-Carey. The first five years if his life were spent indoors, isolated to preserve his compromised immune system until he was diagnosed with the terminal illness. His parents decided to let Max die living and made every day a new experience for their son.