Ben X Page #5

And now the sports.

At the Indian Wells

tournament...

Everyone here today,

members of the family,

colleagues,

ladies and gentlemen,

girls and boys...

we've all come

together today

to say goodbye

to a very special young man

who was taken from us

so suddenly

and tragically.

Ben's life was never easy.

His condition made things

very difficult for him.

Maybe

we only realize now,

when it's too late,

that he battled against

his handicap,

if you can call it that,

that was much worse

than we could've imagined.

We never really

had any real contact with him

and won't be able to now.

Today all we can do

is accept

that some things

are just

too heavy to bear.

That is why...

Hello.

Thank you for coming.

I too have come

to an end,

as they say.

Come to an end.

I died of myself.

Fellow men

and un-fellow men...

my fight is over.

At the end of your life,

they say a film

of your life flashes

before your eyes.

Here are a few scenes

that may interest you.

Go on, Ben.

Now, the endgame.

She called it dying creatively.

Suicide without the dying.

Dying without quitting.

Or quitting without dying.

I had to learn everything.

But I'd forgotten

the most important thing.

Learning to lie.

To deceive.

Someone had to die first.

Otherwise you wouldn't

have come.

Not for a boy.

You can't keep on

begging and asking...

You're so angry, Mommy.

And asking again and again

that something be done

to put a stop to it.

That they'd finally stop

tormenting my son

and making his life...

sorry, but it's true...

making his life

so impossible.

His autism is his problem,

but it's not a problem to him.

The others are the problem.

The others.

They have to learn

to leave my kid alone.

Ben just wanted to quit.

Now he has.

Fortunately,

he's still alive.

He's alive.

In his own world, maybe,

but he's alive.

He's alive!

He's living his life.

She said,

"It's high time

to become who you are."

Just let it happen, Ben.

Don't be scared.

If you want

to learn to feel good,

you have to learn to feel.

Stroke him.

I've never been

what they call happy.

But I've never been

this kind of happy.

Beautiful, no?

You don't have to talk to animals.

Do you dare sit on it,

you two-bit hero?

As soon as people

see a horse,

they want to sit on it.

But has anyone

ever heard a horse

ask for that?

Do you?

If a horse could choose...

Yes, well...

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