Indonesian President Joko Widodo has made it abundantly clear that his administration will do everything it can to make sure the Bali Nine Australian pair on death row meet the firing squad as soon as possible.
But even before his fate looked so bleak, Andrew Chan seemed determined to make his life mean something, even if that meant accepting his dark fate and offering up his liver to a friend.
Chan’s friend, Sydney pastor Mal Feebrey says he was dying from liver disease when Chan said he could take his, back in 2010 in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
“It really touched me. Here I am waiting for a donor, I’m dying in front of my wife and kids and here he is going ‘my liver’s ok, you can have mine’,” Feebrey said, as quoted by the SMH.
Though Feebrey reportedly said he was eventually able to get a liver transplant from another donor since then, it was Chan’s compassionate offer that has stayed with him over the years.
“He was sort of like, if they want to kill me, then you can have my liver. It wasn’t a passing-the-time comment, he wanted to make it happen. If he could have pulled it off he would have,” Feebrey said.
This personal story was not shared publicly until recently, and only because Feebrey wants the world to know the incredible person that he knows Chan to be.
Photo: Friends of Andrew Chan Facebook page
