Background
Jaakko Wallenius was born in Hämeenlinna in 1958.
Jaakko Wallenius was born in Hämeenlinna in 1958.
He taught himself to read in Finnish at the age of 6, and later learned German, Swedish, and English. He was diagnosed with inoperable cancer in November 2011. In his last entry to his blog Being Human on April 14, 2013, he wrote:
I am still here thanks to chemotherapy that has given me an additional year and a half, but the therapies were terminated a week ago because their ability to fight my cancer has waned official
I am on my own now, but nobody knows how soon the end will come.
However, it is quite certain that I will not see my 56th birthday in January of 2014. He died on June 11, 2013.