Paul Harrell was a YouTuber to the very finish…even after the top. With the identical character, candor, wit, sincerity and even humor that made him fashionable sufficient to earn greater than 1.17 million subscribers, the well-known gun activist and firearms content material creator introduced his personal dying on his YouTube channel @PaulHarrell Tuesday. The video was launched shortly after his passing by his longtime editor Brad Nelson.
“Hello everybody. Let me get proper to the purpose. As I’m recording this at the moment it’s 20 December 2023. And I’m recording this and giving Brad directions to publish it upon my dying. So ,should you’re watching me, I’m lifeless,” he says in a video shot exterior as Harrell sat with a crutch on a snow-covered log. The video, posted under, is titled merely, “I’m Lifeless.”
The Oregon-based YouTuber had been battling pancreatic most cancers for the reason that fall when it was first found.
“Now a couple of months in the past I sat proper right here on this log and instructed you I’d been identified with pancreatic most cancers, and I instructed you we’d caught it early and that we have been nonetheless going to be right here for a while. Effectively, we did catch it early however not as early as I had thought, and It has unfold sooner than I believed it will,” he instructed his viewers within the December-shot video. “You could have seen me just lately utilizing this crutch once I instructed you I broke my hip. Effectively, I did break my hip, but it surely wasn’t as a result of I used to be in any form of accident, it was as a result of the most cancers unfold to my bones and the bones simply fractured and I fell down…My time is drawing very quick.”
He urged Patreon supporter of his web page not to surrender their assist simply but, as a result of it’s his and his crew’s hope that his brother, Rob Harrell, and the remainder of the crew will have the ability to proceed his work.
“So, should you haven’t heard from us by subsequent month, sure, then cancel your Patreon assist,” he mentioned.
Harrell then went on to ask a couple of favors of his followers, together with to not watch pirated content material from his channel on “different” channels and to not imagine every part those that lie about him and denigrate his character since he received’t be round to defend himself. He thanked everybody for his or her years of assist.
Harrell started his YouTube channel 12 years in the past in 2012 in keeping with his oldest posted movies.
“My aim in doing all of this was, sure to have enjoyable, do some issues that have been enjoyable, however primarily to place out helpful information or if not helpful a minimum of attention-grabbing info,” he mentioned. Ultimately, he was apologetic to his viewers.
“The ultimate factor I might need to say is, my honest apologies. I had hoped that I might proceed on this format the subsequent 10, and even 15 years. And even as soon as I used to be identified, I’d hoped it will be right here, two or three extra years, which turned out to be just a few extra months, and my apologies for that, it actually makes me really feel like I’ve let everyone down.
“So, not far more to say than that,” Harrell says, taking a deep breath, clearly caught up within the realization that when individuals noticed this video, he wouldn’t be right here. “So, I assume the ultimate line I’ve probably not rehearsed this, is, I’m actually glad we’ve had this chance to do all of the stuff that we’ve completed. I actually hope that it has been useful. I actually recognize you watching, commenting and collaborating. And, nicely most likely only a few regrets in what we’ve completed right here. I believe for essentially the most half we’ve been profitable. I hope you agree. So, as at all times, don’t do that at residence and thanks for watching.”
Thanks, Paul. Thanks!
