“I just said, ‘Be careful and have a good time. “She wanted to have the best possible time she could have,” Josh Isford said. Isford told her sister Star that she was going to “roll one last time.” Star and brother Josh both said they warned her to be careful. The week before the prom, she told several people that she planned to take Ecstasy once more. “It just makes you realize that life’s too short to waste on so-called whims of fun.” “She was doing Ecstasy to make the event special,” Pat Isford, 48, said hours after her youngest child was pronounced dead. The agonizing decision, her mother said, was made after doctors told her Isford was brain-dead. Isford’s family, friends and fiance cradled the 18-year-old in their arms as doctors at Western Medical Center disconnected the life-support system that had kept her breathing for two days. The mixture of Ecstasy and alcohol sent her into a coma, the result of what medical experts and educators describe as a frightening rite of passage during prom season. On Tuesday, Isford lay in the intensive-care unit of a Santa Ana hospital, her dress replaced with a blue medical gown. To cap the special evening, she told her sister, she would take Ecstasy “one more time.” Cathy Isford wore a white, strapless dress and her dark, red hair up in a twist for Foothill High School’s senior prom Saturday.
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