'Today is my wake', says man with terminal cancer in celebration with beer and samba When he discovered that stomach cancer had no cure, Tiago Martins Pitthan, 49, made a decision: stop postponing his dreams. The lawyer, who lives in Campo Grande and held a funeral during his lifetime, stopped making plans for the distant future and started focusing his energy on the experiences he still wants to have, such as learning to surf, visiting his brother in Portugal again and taking his mother to visit Mexico. See the video above. "I'm not counting down. I'm counting forward. Each day is one more day that I will live." ✅ Click here to follow the g1 MS channel on WhatsApp 📱Bookmark g1 on Google and follow the main news of the day New dreams With the physical limitations imposed by the disease, some activities had to be left behind. Football, running and cycling have become more difficult. But he found an alternative: replacing impossible dreams with ones that can still be realized. "I can't run anymore. I can't play football. I can't cycle. So I switched passions." Among the next goals is learning to surf. "I'm going to learn to surf." The list also includes visiting his brother in Portugal again and fulfilling his mother's old wish. "I want to take my mother to Mexico." The circuit breaker Tiago Pitthan during the celebration of his own life, held in Campo Grande. Alison Lima The way Tiago faces death also draws attention. An atheist, he says he never saw the end of life as something supernatural. "I see death as turning off the circuit breaker." According to him, the diagnosis did not change his view on death, but it completely transformed his relationship with time. "What's changed is that I don't put things off anymore." Therefore, he says he prefers to focus his energy on what he can still live for. "I've already beaten cancer. It will take my life at some point, but that's all it will take. It won't take a minute out of my day." Watch videos from Mato Grosso do Sul: