He leaves his entire inheritance to a hospital so that terminally ill patients do not die in a shared room

«Until then, we shared a room with another patient, separated by a curtain laments his widow, who has decided to donate her entire inheritance to public health so that terminally ill cancer patients can live their last moments alone in a room. His gesture of solidarity will be remembered forever on a plaque in room 475 of this Majorcan hospital.

«It was what I felt when we knew that “Gabriel had pancreatic cancer,” the widow tells ABC while holding one of the last photos of her husband in Son Llàtzer’s bed. “After receiving the fatal news, he could no longer get out of the chair,” he repeats, still in shock at the quick outcome. “On September 16 we went to the emergency room because he was not feeling well and on October 10 at 2:15 a.m. he breathed his last.”

On the third day of his admission, they spoke and decided that she would make this will and that when he got better and returned home, “she would do the same,” says Sedi, providing a recent will where he leaves the Service as the “universal heir” of all his assets. of Health (IB-Salut) for the “good treatment received.”

That day he asked at the hospital and they put him in contact with the legal services of Son Llàtzer. Then he called the notary and He changed his last wishes.

He willto which this newspaper has had access, declares that the inheritance of Sedi Behvarrand will be used for “care and attention of terminal patients of the Son Llàtzer Hospital in Palma in their last days” so that “they have a single room until the moment of their death.”

In Son Llàtzer there are already last-day rooms, but the hospital management will comply with the couple’s wishes by adapting room 475 or creating a new space that allows that privacy.

Dressed in rigorous mourning, Sedi searches through old photos and remembers how they met in 1990 in Gran Canaria. She ran two stores in a luxury hotel in Maspalomas – art and men’s clothing – and Gabriel was a Mallorcan maitre d’ who had traveled extensively on the best cruise ships in the United States and came to the island to work.

«He started working at Meliá in the Caribbean as head of food & beverage. Later, during a holiday in Palma in 1989, he was offered the position of kitchen director at the Riu hotel in Maspalomas and he didn’t think twice,” he details.

«We met because he had to renew his wardrobe and came to buy clothes at the store. At first I saw it as normal but other classmates warned me that Gabriel, in reality, did not need that many clothes and only came to see me,” she says wistfully. «We started talking and after three months of knowing each other and living together in my apartment we were already husband and wife; “We spent our honeymoon in Lanzarote.” They did not have children together, although Gabriel has three children who have been “hours and hours” in the hospital in recent days, she points out.

In the parish of San Magín in Palma, where Gabriel was baptized, his funeral was held on October 15. At the wake, bikers from all over Spain filled the funeral home with wreaths, along with their vest and flag. “He was a great motorcycle fan.”

Now the IB-Salut legal services are processing Sedi Behvarrad’s petition and have agreed to put a plaque in the room in his memory. «I don’t know yet what they are going to put. They may say ‘for the solidarity of your wife, this room 475 Gabriel Serra will be for the terminally ill,’ she proposes. The same one where her beloved husband took his last breath with their hands clasped.