YouTuber Paul Harrell confirms his death at age 58 in posthumous video
Paul Harrell
Paul Harrell/YOUTUBEYouTube star Paul Harrell died at the age of 58, revealing the news in a posthumously released announcement.
“I’ll get straight to the point: as I’m recording this, it’s December 2023 and I’m giving [my manager] Brad [Nelson] instructions to publish this after my death. So if you look at me, I’m dead,” Harrell said in one YouTube video released on Tuesday, September 3.
Harrell died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, which he publicly confirmed in July 2023. In his diagnosis video, Harrell said his doctors “caught it early.”
“Well, we caught it early, but not as early as I thought,” he said in Tuesday’s video. “And it has spread faster than I thought. You may have seen me use this crutch recently when I told you I broke my hip. Well, it wasn’t because I got hurt in an accident, it was because the cancer spread to my bones, the bones crumbled. [and] my hip is broken.”
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Harrell further noted that he “ran short of time” before making certain requests to his social media viewers.
“For anyone who is a Patreon supporter, thank you, but please don’t turn off your Patreon support immediately,” Harrell said. “We hope the crew, especially my brother, will continue to create content on this channel. …People are pirating other people’s content in this format – and now that I’m dead, there’s not much I can do about it – please don’t put money in the pockets of thieves. If you’re going to watch what I do, make sure you check it out on my channel.”
He continued: “I’m sure people will accept this [my death] as an opportunity to belittle my character, so I hope you know me well enough by now to know what to believe and what not to believe. Don’t just believe the nonsense people tell you.”
Harrell has made more than 400 videos on wilderness survival skills and firearm safety, and thanked “everyone who watched or hit the subscribe button” in his Tuesday upload.
“I can’t even begin to express how helpful and rewarding those things are,” he said. “I would also like to say that my goal in all of this was, yes, to have fun doing some things, but mainly to spread useful information. Or, if not useful, at least interesting. I really hope that as you’re watching me, you’ve seen some things that made you say, “Oh, I see.” [Or saw] things that made you change something you did in a way that helped you. I really hope that the reviews we’ve done have saved you some money and kept you from buying things that probably wouldn’t be a good fit for you.”
