This Teenage Girl Cuddled Her Sweetheart After His Family Had Made The Most Heartbreaking Decision

this teenage girl cuddled her sweetheart after his family had made the most heartbreaking decision [Music] [Applause] [Music] they say the first cut is the deepest and that young love is incredibly strong once teenager stephanie ray was done cuddling her boyfriend however she was faced with a terrible reality and as a result she had to make an impossible choice the heat wave of summer 2018 touched almost every region of the uk including whales so it's not surprising that sixteen-year-old blake ward decided to go out for a swim in the sea one day at the time he was visiting the town of tywin of gwyneth on a family trip blake and two other teenagers from the same family had gotten into the water to try and cool off but they soon ran into problems you see a strong current caught them and swept the teens out away from the shore yet it wasn't clear at first that anything was wrong in fact stephanie's mother rebecca ray explained that from a distance their shouts sounded like laughter we'd arrived on the sunday and the weather had not been too good so on tuesday when the sun came out we headed for the beach they were only five minutes ahead of us she told the sun when we got to the beach i could hear them shouting and at first i thought it was screams of laughter rebecca explained then i said to my sister are they in trouble we dumped everything and ran over to the rocks by the time the women got there however the teens needed more help than they could give consequently the young swimmers had to be pulled from the water by royal national lifeboat institution rnli volunteers who administered cpr blake was then flown to liverpool's elder hay children's hospital although blake had coveted a military career and he's been in very good shape he hadn't been a good swimmer and tragically his turmoil in the sea had left him with severe brain damage so as his family stood next to his hospital bed they had little hope of him surviving his mother and father had not taken the trip to the beach with the other family members and had not been there to witness the tragic events they subsequently hurried to be by their son's bedside as blakely in the hospital his girlfriend stephanie rushed to be there too determined to stay with her childhood sweetheart yet it was all for naught doctors determined that blake would not be able to recover and that his life support machine would be switched off there was nothing left for stephanie to do but climb into bed with her paramore and let him know that he wasn't alone it was the best way she could think of to say goodbye to the boy she loved someone captured the tender moment on camera and afterwards the picture of the young lady in the hospital bed letting her boyfriend go was shared widely a subsequent facebook post from stephanie describe blake's passing today has been the hardest day for me and it will be a day i'll never be able to forget as some of you may know blake was involved in a terrible accident on tuesday we were told yesterday that blake would never recover and his brain was too damaged stephanie's post read we had to make the hard decision of turning his machine off and letting him go but just know blake wasn't in any pain as he passed away with his family around him as blake passed away tributes were made to remember this young man several people left flowers outside the school he attended in his hometown of dudley many people wrote notes and attached them alongside they included stephanie whose note was photographed and appeared online to my baby boy i know you're in a better place and not in pain it said i'm gonna make you proud i promise we had our ups and downs but we got through them love you my precious angel sleep tight but the memorials didn't end there the headmistress of blake's school decided to honor the boy during a speech she gave to pupils for instance considering the young man had only moved to wolverhampton six months previously it speaks to the impact that his tragic event had and while blake may have later died the coast guard and other emergency services had done their part to try to save him consequently they tried to display their condolences by holding a fly past during a special event to celebrate his life blake's death was a tragic example of a life cut short far too soon there was however a small silver lining that could offer some of his loved ones a modicum of comfort at the special request of his family some of blake's organs were donated to those in dire need this isn't the first time that the area suffered a tragedy as a result of drowning either when two girls got into difficulties back in 2014 74 year old richard guest died during a rescue attempt ultimately the girls were saved but guest never made it back stephanie's mother therefore argued that it was time for the beach to get adequate lifeguard cover we can hope that lessons can be learnt from this she told cambrian news we hope it will help to get the proper people onto the beach so this will never ever happen again that being said it doesn't look likely that the beach will be monitored more closely the local council insists in fact that the funding isn't available to bring rnli lifeguards to the beach in question a crowdfunding page for blake's wake promises however to use any access as a donation to the air ambulance and others