
Nathan, a 15-year-old freshman at Newton North High School, continued to play the piano, and later the clarinet, every day until just before his death Friday of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, pneumonia, and influenza at Children's Hospital Boston.
Can someone please explain this to me? How can you not be able to treat the flu in an otherwise healthy teenager? This just makes me angry.
Anyway, Nathan seemed like a kickass guy, and I'll keep his family in my prayers. />
Thursday night's episode of The Office paid tribute to Nathan Robinson, a 15-year-old high school student who died on March 14 of "flu-related complications" and was a huge fan of the show.
The episode ended with an "In Memoriam" and the clip above, of Nathan playing the show's theme song on the piano.
Producers of The Office learned about the teen when the Boston Globe ran a story on him after his death.
This is so sweet, and really wonderful of the folks at The Office, but what I w...