I feel sorry for Daniel that he was married to someone who never thought for one minute how it must feel to be told at 29 years of age and a father of three kids, that you’re going to die. From the outset, Rachel has placed herself as the victim in Daniel’s story. She is a victim yes but she is not the victim, Daniel is. She has made every single thing that happened to him about herself. She is so desperate to be seen as inspirational and strong that she has placed herself front and centre of Daniel’s tragedy. Yes losing your husband at 29 is horrendous but she is not the one who lost her children or her life. Daniel is the one who died but ultimately it’s Rachel who wants to be seen as the victim and it’s Rachel who wants to be seen as the inspiration. She’s no more inspirational than the millions of other people who have to live with the burden of tragic circumstances, but do so quietly and alone without needing to be told daily how amazing they are. Yes she now has to rear three kids alone but she also has a lot of support, financial and physical that other people going through her situation and worse do not have. She has placed herself as a martyr and she truly thinks she is the only one who has experienced tragedy. I cannot believe she never once thought about how Daniel might have felt hearing that he is going to die a young man. That is self obsession on another level.
Daniel is the inspiration. He was a young man who built his family a home after being told you won’t see them grow up in it. He carried on and was strong until the bitter end. He seemed to have done a lot for his family and thought of every milestone they might need to hear from him and wrote them letters. He was inspiring, strong and selfless in the face of death despite being so young and losing out on so much. The poor guy.