YouTuber Paul Harrell announced his own death in a pre-recorded video from cancer. He was 58.
In the posthumous video titled “I’m Dead,” posted on Tuesday, September 3, Harrell shared that his pancreatic cancer had “spread faster than I thought it would” and reached his bones.
Harrell, who first revealed his diagnosis to his followers on July 16, explained that doctors caught it early, “but not as early as I had thought.”
While sitting on a snow-covered log near his home in Oregon, he added, “You may have seen me recently using this crutch when I told you I broke my hip. Well, it wasn’t because I was injured in any kind of accident; it was because the cancer spread to my bones, the bones crumbled, and my hip fractured.”
He had three final requests of his followers: to continue supporting his channel and Patreon as his brother and crew take over, to avoid any pirated versions of his content, and to disengage from content creators who “denigrate” him online.
“To everyone who has watched, hit the like or dislike icon, commented, shared, subscribed, and donated on Patreon, thank you,” he said in the video. “All of those things support the channel greatly, and I can’t even begin to articulate how beneficial and appreciated those things are.”
Here’s more information about the platform he used to educate viewers on firearms and the disease that took his life.
