They detected a terminal illness, played the lottery and earned $ 250,000

Richard Beare is facing the last stage of his life. The retiree, who lives in North Carolina, United States, has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer and the state of his illness is advanced. The doctors badured him that gravity is maximum and that, to recover, he will have to give a hard battle. Even so, it will not be easy.

Beare's life, of course, has changed. Knowing that his illness is very hard, he started to see everything differently. But soon after receiving the report from the doctors, as if it was a bet of fate, the chance allowed him to keep an unexpected price: he bought a ticket to scratch and he won 250 thousand dollars to the lottery in North Carolina.

The retired mechanic stated that it was rare that he bet and that he only did so at the request of his wife because the price was very high . It was so much bought four "raspaditas" to see if he could keep an instant prize.

After scraping the first three bills, everything indicated that it was a waste of money. But on the fourth attempt, he had a big surprise. "When I saw that the numbers matched, I asked a local employee what that meant." The answer was very clear: who had won 250 thousand dollars. His wife, who watched attentively all that was happening, could not believe it. "I was shocked and kept looking at myself and watching the ticket," said the man, and with the tax break, he remained in Beare 176,876 $.

With this money plans to travel the world. Despite the terminal illness, he wants to enjoy every minute. "My wife has always wanted to go to Italy, so now we are going to meet." It will be one of the first countries to travel in the American couple.