Stephen Sutton who died aged 19 this week won a nation’s love and respect for his courage and fund-raising from his hospital bed
Stephen will be remembered for his story of courage after diverting his energies away from a clichéd ‘battle against cancer’ to a transcendent initiative to help others with cancer. It was an effort to avoid another cliché of the cancer sufferer. One of Stephen’s powerful messages was that he wasn’t suffering from Cancer, he was living through it.
His thumbs-up image from his hospital bed helped his campaign which went far beyond his original fund-raising target.
And in this way he discovered what lies beyond acceptance of his approaching death. His discovery lies beyond what most of us never find, the nature of altruism and service leadership.
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