'We’d rather he were dead than suffering like this', say parents of 12-year-old Indian boy whose head hangs at a 180-degree angle due to a rare condition.

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Mahendra Ahirwar suffers from an extremely rare condition that makes his head hang from his body at 180-degree angle.

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His parents Makesh, 40, and Sumitra Ahirwar, 35, both working as a laborer said that they have already consulted 50 doctors across India but they failed to give answers to Mahendra's condition.

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Sumitra's other children are perfectly healthy, a 16 and 10-year-old sons and a 14-year-old daughter.

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Mahendra doesn't go to school so his only friends are his siblings and his cousins.

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Their children were all born normally so they never thought to consult a doctor or have an ultrasound done with Mahendra, who was born at home just like his siblings.

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Sumitra said, "I cannot see him suffer anymore. Watching his life is devastating. He cannot do anything by himself. He just sits in a corner of the room all day. It's no life. I have to carry him like a baby everywhere but he is 12 years old, how will I carry him when he grows even older?"

If doctors cannot treat my son it is better that God takes him