DJ Fighting Cancer Dies With Coronavirus After Telling Doctors To ‘Save Someone Else’
While mourning the loss of Liam Downing, the family of the British DJ is also praising him for the sweet gesture he made just before he passed away.
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Downing, who turned 30-years-old just five days before his death, was battling leukemia. He learned that he had also contracted COVID-19 after being admitted to the hospital with a suspected infection on March 16, Metro UK reported. From there, doctors informed him there was nothing else they could do to cure his cancer, which he’d been battling for two years, according to the outlet.
As The New York Post notes, Downing died after he declined to take any more medication on March 21 — telling doctors to “save someone else’s life” with the meds instead. On the GoFundMe page that has been setup to help pay for his burial expenses, his sister Laura explained that “Liam had [spoken] with the specialist about what his options were,” but “by the end of the conversation, Liam had made the brave decision not to have any more medication and to just be made as comfortable and given end of life care instead.”
“This came as a massive shock to all of our family and friends but that was Liam’s wish,” she added. “He had fought the battle for as long as he could with leukemia and did not want to waste any more of the NHS money and selflessly said, ‘save someone else’s life with it.’”
According to Johns Hopkins University data, over 22,400 COVID-19 cases and 1,400 deaths have been reported in the UK.
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