Plus - any email that states at the conclusion of the story to "send to everyone you know .." is considered in the same category as chain letters and spam. The true intent is to clog the internet mail servers with "junk". Even though often the story content seems noble - it usually is not real. A good rule of thumb is to not forward anything that requests you to "forward to all your contacts". Business email systems sometime crash with the burden of these type of email communications - it is costly to build and maintain mail filters. Its a mess.