“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” said a 10-year-old cancer patient, waiting to see Pixar’s latest movie. The girl, Colby Curtin, was too sick to go to a theater, so a family friend called Pixar and Disney to ask if they would help her watch the movie before she died.

A Pixar employee brought a DVD to the Curtin family along with movie-related toys and stayed while the family watched. Colby couldn’t open her eyes to see the film. Her mother described the scenes to her. The family didn’t know “Up” focuses on an old man holding on to the dreams he had with his departed wife. They knew primarily that the story had lots of balloons and that Colby wanted to see it.

She died that evening.