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A gambler with terminal cancer who won £10,000 by betting he would stay alive has died just weeks before he was due to collect another £10,000 from his bookmaker.
Jon Matthews was diagnosed with mesothelioma - a cancer linked to asbestos - in April 2006.
But the widower refused to accept his doctor's prognosis that he would be dead within months and decided to bet against it.
He bet £100 at odds of 50/1 with William Hill that he would remain alive until June 1 2008. This won him £5,000.
He made a further bet of the same amount and odds that he would survive until June 1 2009, which netted him another £5,000 last year.
His third and final wager of £100 at 100/1 that he would survive until June 1 this year would have netted him £10,000 if he had lived another few weeks.
But he died last Monday at the age of 59.
Graham Sharp, who took what he called the 'unique' bet for William Hill, said it had given Mr Matthews an incentive to fight the disease.
He said: 'I was very sad when I heard he'd died. I'd been in touch with Jon since he placed the bet and and I'm just delighted that it gave him so much fun and enjoyment.
'When he first approached us about it I was in two minds and thought we'd be accused of doing something in bad taste. But it gave him an incentive to keep on battling through the disease.
'I was delighted to pay out the £5,000 twice.'
He described Mr Matthews as a very positive man who had given much of his winnings to charity but spent some of them on enjoying himself - smoking, drinking and betting on horses and dogs.
He added: 'He proved that what is often dispiriting news from a doctor doesn't necessarily mean you can't make the most of the time you've got left.'
Mr Matthews said last year: 'I think I'm the first person in the world to bet on my own life.'

Gone to the big betting shop in the sky.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Gone to the big betting shop in the sky.

Poor sod....he died of mesothelioma...My father died from the same illness in September 2002. It was only diagnosed in January 2002. He worked with asbestos in the 50's and 60's.
It took that long to catch up with him. Not a nice way to go.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Poor sod....he died of mesothelioma...My father died from the same illness in September 2002. It was only diagnosed in January 2002. He worked with asbestos in the 50's and 60's.
It took that long to catch up with him. Not a nice way to go.

My old man died of lung cancer (smoked since he was 14), was only detected at an avanced stage 4 iii Told in January and died in June aged 64, never seen anybody go downhill so fast

Each of us owes a death for our life.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Each of us owes a death for our life.

Were just peas in a pod