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Javier Acosta, a young 36-year-old Colombian fan of the Millonarios teamreceived euthanasia after a serious illness left him in a wheelchair, and recently his condition has worsened with

Video | Who is Javier Acosta? The millionaire fan who asked for euthanasia

Javier Acosta, a young 36-year-old Colombian fan of the Millonarios teamreceived euthanasia after a serious illness left him in a wheelchair, and recently his condition has worsened with no guarantee of recovery.

His story and the video he recorded himself went around Colombia, causing a great stir and solidarity with the young man.

Dozens of fans and brave groups of the capital team came this Friday to the doors of the San Ignacio Hospital in Bogota to say goodbye to him and accompany him in the euthanasia procedure.

“My name is Javier Acosta, I am a Millonarios fan and I made a decision for my whole life and today I say goodbye to my friends and family in a big way, hold on to life, crazy people,” the young man wrote.

Cancer began to develop in his head

Javier Acosta was left in a wheelchair after a traffic accident nine years ago. infectious bacteria in the pool which caused a serious infection that reached his bones, a disease they couldn’t control and he eventually developed the disease. blood cancer.

Millonarios fan ‘waited for a miracle’ as doctors told him in his final days there would be no cure.

“Friends, but paila (bad) I tell you that there will be no miracle, that there is no other possibility,” the young man with a lump in his throat explained in the video.

After five years of fighting the disease, the treatment did not help, and Cancer began to develop in his head.

Therefore, since he can’t walk either, the young man decided that he would rather undergo euthanasia than live in the hospital waiting cancer will end his life.

For this reason, Javier, the father of the 12-year-old girl, decided to opt for euthanasia, which is legal in Colombia in cases of incurable, serious or terminal illness, and which was carried out today, Friday.

“Life is over and I am doing a ‘live broadcast’ to say goodbye to everyone because later I will not have the strength to tell them. (…) It is not easy to get infected with such an infection,” Javier said.

Radamel Falcao says goodbye to Javier Acosta and makes him a promise

Even Radamel Falcao Garcia became interested in the case and emotionally called to say goodbye to Javier while he was in the clinic.

“I found out you were a Millonarios fan and they told me a little bit about your history. “That you make the decision, but we wanted to know a little bit more about you, to be in the know.”

“Rada”, what can I tell you? I am a fan of “Millonarios”, I am 36 years old. I have been working in a bar for 20 years, in “Blue Commandos”, I am in a wheelchair because of the problem with the bars of bravas. I have osteomyelitis, a disease that I have been fighting for 5 years, it gave me a carcinogenic battery.

“It’s hard because there’s no longer the possibility of walking again or being like before, not going back to any of that, ‘Tiger’… I made the decision to euthanize,” Javier replied.

Falcao immediately asked:

Is this decision related to the fact that you are suffering from uncontrollable pain?

To which the fan replied: “Yes, sir. It’s the kind of pain that even morphine doesn’t work on.”

Finally, Radamel Falcao promised Javier Acosta that he would dedicate to him the first goal he scores in the shirt of the Bogotá team he joined this semester. (According to EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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