Lorenzo's Oil boy is dead at 30

[bijou]

Lorenzo Odone, whose parents' battle to save him from a rare nerve disorder was depicted in the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil, has died from pneumonia aged 30.

Doctors had predicted he would not live beyond childhood when he was diagnosed with the incurable disease aged six.

But his parents found what seemed to be a cure made of acids from olive and rapeseed oils.

Lorenzo died at his home in the US state of Virginia on Friday - a day after his 30th birthday.

He was suffering from aspiration pneumonia, which was caused by food getting stuck in his lungs.

His father Augusto said: "He could not see or communicate, but he was still with us. He did not suffer... That's the important thing."
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[Schadenfreude]

I remember watching that movie. Suddenly your own problems seem minor in comparison. RIP Lorenzo.

[Dixie*Darling]

His father Augusto said: "He could not see or communicate, but he was still with us. He did not suffer... That's the important thing."

Spoken like a parent who did not consider his son "inconvenient".
May he RIP.