Musician Jeremy Bar-Illan spent over a year watching his 17-year-old son, Zachary, suffer from osteosarcoma — a type of cancer that starts in the bones. After his tragic death, the grieving father vowed to always keep his son’s memory alive.
Zachary’s difficult battle with osteosarcoma resulted in a leg amputation and two lung surgeries. He suffocated to death in August 2009.
“My whole world was falling apart,” Bar-Illan, 55, tells People. “I had two surviving sons to raise and my wife was not in the picture.”
In the midst of devastation, Bar-Illan, who worked on Wall Street at the time, realized...
Zachary’s difficult battle with osteosarcoma resulted in a leg amputation and two lung surgeries. He suffocated to death in August 2009.
“My whole world was falling apart,” Bar-Illan, 55, tells People. “I had two surviving sons to raise and my wife was not in the picture.”
In the midst of devastation, Bar-Illan, who worked on Wall Street at the time, realized...
- 4/7/2017
- by Caitlin Keating
- PEOPLE.com
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