News article - Emma Andis
A Question Solomon Never Faced
By Donna O'Neal, Sentinel Tallahassee Bureau | September 3, 1992
Born without a brain, Emma Nicole Andis lived only five days, but the emotions
her fleeting existence wrought will stay with her family for a lifetime. ''A
brief life is not an insignificant life,'' her mother, Anne, said Wednesday.
''My child has taught me more about compassion, more about sympathy, and allowed
me to love in spite of the hurt.'' Andis' daughter was born last February with
anencephaly, a fatal condition in fetuses that prevents the brain from forming
beyond its stem. Most afflicted infants live only a few hours or days.