Matteo has been in and out of the hospital since he was six. When he was fifteen, he was diagnosed with Stage III Lung Cancer. The doctors said he wouldn’t make it to his eighteenth birthday.

As his best friend, you’ve been by his side, every day, since he was advised to stay in the hospital when he was sixteen. Now, he’s seventeen, and his eighteenth birthday is days away.

It was clear that he wouldn’t make it. Matteo was ready for death to take him.