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HIS CHARITY
The Ráez phenomenon increased bone marrow donations in Malaga by 1300% in 2016, with a total of 11,201 new donors that year. The director of the Regional Blood Transfusion Center, Isidro Prats, described as "crucial" Pablo's viral campaign to reach this figure. -
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HIS DEATH
Pablo Ráez died on Saturday, February 25, 2017 at the age of 20. A massive funeral was held on Sunday, February 26, 2017 in the Church of the Incarnation of Marbella, attended by a thousand people and covered by the main Spanish media. Also came various personalities of local politics, such as the full municipal corporation or the mayor of Malaga. After the funeral, an incineration was carried out in the cemetery of the Virgen del Carmen, to which only the family came. -
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WHERE HE STUDY
Medac, School of Sport and Health, Malaga. Thanks to his active works in campaigns in social networks like Facebook, Instagram, Blog and YouTube, managed to increase the donations of bone marrow, next to its phrase 'Siempre Fuerte'. -
BIRTH
He was born in Marbella,España.
Was a Spanish sportsman and blogger famous for his active fight for bone marrow after suffering from leucemia. -
DISEASE
Was diagnosed with acute myeloblastic leukemia in the preoperative period of a knee injury that had been suffering for many years. After receiving a bone marrow transplant from his father, he managed to recover and resume his life for a few months, in which he met his partner and was working in London. After 10 months of surgery, in the summer of 2016, he returned to Spain to undergo a new knee operation, and it was then that they discovered that the leukemia was being reproduced again. -
HIS JUMPING TO FAME.
His video to benefit from the marrow donation on August 24, 2016 surpassed one million visits. Pablo found a new donor, this time of American origin, and was operated in November of 2016, when he received an infusion of stem cells. He was discharged after 38 days in mid-December, and although always optimistic and with his arms in a position of strength, that same day he already shared in the networks that the result of the intervention had not been as positive as he had hoped. -
HIS LAST WRITING
The athlete never lost optimism and was always ready to fight the disease, but he used his social profiles to explain that things were not going well at all. On January 25, 2017 he wrote for the last time in his social networks a writing that ended with this sentence: (...) Death is part of life, so do not fear it, but love it.