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Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time, this story on The OC Register today is almost the perfect representation of Up, which carries with it the sadness of accepting death and the courage it takes for family members to move on.

Pixar granted a dying girl's wish to see their latest film, by arranging a private screening for her family. She passed away content seven hours later. Excuse me while I procure a towel. My eyes are perspiring.

10-year-old Colby Curtin was a terminal vascular cancer patient who really wanted to see Up, but was too weak to be moved to a theater to see it. Running out of time, a family friend desperately called up Pixar, got through, and told Colby's story. Pixar agreed to fly an employee to the Curtin house with a DVD of Up and various memorabilia. This particular detail gave me a lump in my throat:

Among the Up memorabilia the employee gave Colby was an “adventure book” – a scrap book the main character’s wife used to chronicle her journeys.

“I’ll have to fill those adventures in for her,” Lisa Curtin said.

I can't even imagine what it must be like to watch this movie with a dying loved one, given what it's about. This is really cool of Pixar to do, and even cooler than they declined to comment for the article. That's classy.

And yeah, there are cynical folks out there who will think that it's the same old big corporate PR move, and they may be right, but I prefer to believe that Pixar is just filled with awesome people, and this is just one of many examples.

This wasn't the first time Pixar did something incredibly nice "under the radar" like this for a fan, either. Remember Courtney, the YouTube girl who cried watching the trailer for Wall-E? Pixar did something incredible for her too, last year. You can read the account here.

It makes me feel less guilty for being such a shameless fan of the company.