A seven-year-old boy whose
dying wish was to be buried with his mother so she could look after him in
Heaven has died peacefully in hospital.
Filip Kwansy lost his mother Agnieszka to cancer in 2011 but was
himself diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML)
in September last year.
After treatment failed, his dying wish was to be buried alongside his
mother in her coffin, and his family launched an appeal to make it come true.
Filip died on Friday morning at London's Great Ormond Street Children's
Hospital, but the campaign raised £41,000, enough to fund the burial he had
requested.
Now his father, Piotr Kwasny, 40, of Colchester, Essex has thanked the generous public for granting his boy his dying wish.
He said: 'My little boy has now gone, there will forever be an emptiness
beside me and in my heart; but he will never be forgotten and he will always be
loved.
'I really appreciate all the support from the public and from JustGiving
which is going to enable me to fulfil Filip's wish of being put to rest next to
his mother.'
Filip was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1 - an accumulation of
abnormal blood cells in the bone marrow - when he was two, from which he
initially recovered.
But the treatment to cure the adorable boy of his most recent illness, including a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy, failed and the cancer spread to his intestines.
Filip, a former pupil at Friar Grove Primary School in Colchester, had
been receiving only palliative care, to make him comfortable.
The family initially set out to raise £6,500 to fund Filip's burial wish
of lying next to his mum, through a special Just Giving fundraising page, but
they were overwhelmed when the amount hit the £40,000 mark.
As Piotr is ill with spina bifida (a gap in his spine), one kidney, diabetes
and hypertension (high blood pressure), he was unable to work, so was desperate
to find the funds for his son.
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