An Argentine backpacker died in Bolivia and his family needs help to bring the body back | Chronic

A 28-year-old man, who was backpack four years ago, died in Bolivia after an epileptic attack. His relatives, who live in the province of Pilar, Buenos Aires, need money to bring back the remains of the deceased and thus be able to give him a goodbye worthy of the name.

Jonathan Ariel González He left his home in Pilar four years ago and started a new life as a backpacker. Thus, he lived for a while in Tucumán, then in Peru and, finally, he arrived in Bolivia a year and a half ago. There, he sold handmade bracelets and juggled at traffic lights.

According to the relatives of the deceased, cronica.com.arHe suffered an epileptic attack last Sunday and died at Viedma hospital, located in Cochabamba, and they learned of his death last Friday.

"They did not want to give us a lot of details about how he died, they said it was because of an epilepsy attack", their relatives said.

In addition, they declared that they had to collect more than 30,000 pesos for the remains of the young man to arrive in our country. If they want the body, the rate would be much higher. "They told us that we had to pay $ 400 for the body to be removed from the morgue, then 200 more to be cremated, and then a family member would have to go to the country to collect his ashes."he said Patricia, 51 years old, the young man's mother, Chronic.

"We are a hardworking and very humble family, we do not have that kind of money, we are desperate, we are supposed your body is wrapped in sacks and it will remain so until we remove it. he added.

The family learned of the death on Facebook

The young man left his home four years ago and, at least once a month, sent a message to his family via Facebook to inform him of the news of his trip.

This Friday, his sister decided to write to him because he was missing and, by entering the profile of the young man, he found terrible publications of people who had fired a member of his family. "Rest in peace," wrote his friends on his wall.I had trouble understanding the situation, I could not believe what I was reading, so I started to investigate. "he said Jennifer, his sister.

He continued: "I sent messages to his friends and they told me that my brother was dead." They also told me that they were in a house when Jonathan had an attack. # 39; epilepsy. "

"They told me that they had not managed to save him at the hospital, that they were not giving us more information, we did not know in detail what had happened, we were destroyed, we did not know what to do, we just wanted to bring it and send it back ". condemned.