After four years, Drauzio says he feels for the family of the victim in the Suzy case

The doctor said he was bothered by the inappropriate use of his image, especially because the victims of these “forgers” are low-income people. “Of course it bothers me, but what hurts me is when I see humble people who stop me on the street and say: ‘doctor, I bought that diabetes medicine of yours’… This is a person who took this money from the little he had there is and these forgers go unpunished. This is what has become these social networks, a place for cheating, deceiving others, including with issues like these, health issues.”

Varella reflects on death: ‘I don’t think I’m afraid of dying’

The doctor said that the disease, at a certain point, “prepares” the patient for his own death. “Everyone wants to live, they have the strength to live, the problem is that illness often undermines these strengths, and when you die following an illness, it prepares you for that moment. A serious illness that evolves, It leaves you weakened, there comes a point where you simply lose strength, you stop reacting, that’s why we don’t have to be afraid of death.”

He also reflected on the death caused by a violent act and that caused by an illness. “If it’s a violent death, by gunshot, for example, it’s quick. But if it’s a death that comes slowly, it’s a disease, the disease will prepare you, you’ll accept it whether you want it or not because it will impose the pace that is the natural evolution of disease, of death”.

We have to understand that the only certainty we have is that death will happen, so we don’t have to be afraid of it. I think I’m not afraid of dying.