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Dustin Diamond, the actor who played a Screech in the successful series Saved by the bell in the 1990s, he died last February 1, at the age of 44, later lose the battle against cancer terminal suffering.
Dan Block, a close friend of Diamond, released an audio where the actor is heard in very good spirits and even joking about his illness. “He sent me this audio on Thursday, which was the last time I spoke to him. After that he found it difficult to talk,” Block told the newspaper. The sun.
(…)“In this audio, he is trying to clarify the situation he was in, his doctors had just told him that he had very few platelets in his blood and that the slightest scratch could cause his death,” he added.
“I’m telling jokes and even my nurses interrupt me. I’m dying and I’m trying to tell jokes and they don’t even laugh!”, Is one of the phrases Diamond said to his friend, thus demonstrating the attitude which he maintained until his last moments. “Come on, I don’t have a lot of audience to work with and they’re still bothering me, they’re bothering me on my deathbed!’ ”The histrion jokingly said.
His friend also acknowledged that many of his jokes were black humorFor example, he explained that, next to his father, he played “Which organ will turn off first?” and has noted that he was always characterized by such acid comments.
He also shared that there were several emotional moments when they talked: “He cried, then I cried and he said something to make me laugh, then he laughed. Seeing me laugh would make him feel better,” he told the newspaper.
Dan ended with a thank you to the medical staff who cared for his life partner. “He must have pressed the help button thousands of times because he didn’t like being alone and hated pain. I’m sure he told them some amazing jokes and some terrible ones.”
In January Dustin was diagnosed with lung cancer stage 4, Although the actor assured that he had never smoked. Weeks later he was hospitalized and died only a couple of days later.
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