“This is a video I never wanted to make,” Beckey Goodwin begins the message on her husband Luke Goodwin’s YouTube channel. “Luke sadly passed away on August 2nd. He passed away peacefully. He was at home. He had me, his mom and dad by his side. Luke is at peace now. He is no longer in pain, but I thought I should update you all.”
The widow goes on to say that her two children, Taylor, 5, and Scarlett, 3, took the news “very well.” She continued about her late husband: “He showed me how to be strong, even when you’re going through the toughest of times. … He was just amazing. A great father, son and husband.”
Goodwin was diagnosed with stage 4 leiomyosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that grows rapidly and destroys body tissue, in August 2022. On his social media channels, the influencer kept his followers updated on the progression of the disease and raised awareness of charity issues.
“End of life. Death hovers over me”
He last posted on July 18th: “End of life. Death is looming over me” was the title of his video in which he reported on the dramatic deterioration of his condition. “I’ve never felt anything like this. I was breathless, sick, slimy, whatever.”
Two weeks earlier, the 35-year-old had set up a fundraising page. “I know how expensive funerals and everything that goes with them can be, not to mention the heartache my family has to endure,” he says. “I have always found a way to overcome what cancer has done to me, but of course I am getting weaker and weaker and want to make sure my little family has the best I can: fun, memories they will remember forever, and that we stay as positive and happy as we can.”
“It’s still pretty tough right now, but you have to keep a strong head,” she said in a YouTube video. “Luke would say the same thing,” said mother of two Beckey in the video.
The original of this article “Two years after cancer diagnosis: YouTube star dies at 35” comes from BUNTE.de.
