Dying 7-year-old makes heart wrenching last wish

A dying seven-year-old schoolboy is asking the public to help him fulfil his final wish - to be buried with his mother so she can look after him in heaven.

Filip Kwasny, from Colchester, Essex, made the wish from his bed in London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital where chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant have failed to cure his leukaemia.

Now, as the cancer spreads to his intestines, Filip receives only palliative care to make him comfortable as his short life comes to an end.


Kind-hearted strangers have been donating to help him be buried in the same coffin as his mother, who he lost to cancer when he was two.

Barely able to speak, he yesterday sent a personal thank you from his bed on the hospital's Fox Ward, saying: 'Thanks for helping make my wish come true.'

Filip was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML) - an accumulation of abnormal blood cells in the bone marrow - in September last year.

It followed a diagnosis of neurofibromatosis type 1 when he was two, from which Filip, a pupil at Friar Grove Primary School in Colchester, initially recovered.

His father, Piotr Kwasny, 40, is desperate to raise £6,500 to raise his wife's coffin which has been underground for five years and re-bury her with their son.

"He says that I'm his angel that is looking after him here and that his mum will look after him when he is in heaven,' Piotr explained from his son's hospital bed.  

I don't know how well he remembers his mother as he was so young when she passed away, but he has visited her grave when he was well enough to speak to her. 

Filip wants to be buried with his mother so we will need to organise that locally and re-bury them together. He wants her to look after him. I will only be able to take Filip back to Poland myself.  

His step-mother and siblings will have to stay in the UK, as I do not have the means to arrange for passports and transportation to Poland for them all.  

This is just a very stressful and distressing time for all of us. I did not imagine that I would have to bury my child... you shouldn't go before your child."

Filip, who knows he is dying, has told his dad that he wants to be buried in the same coffin as his beloved mum, Agnieszka, who died aged 33 on November 12, 2011.

Source: DailyMail