The incident had tremendous consequences for him.

Now he had just a few hours left and could barely talk. She was by his side until the end.

When she asked him the reason for his heroic action, he answered, amid long pauses: “Selfishness. I couldn’t have borne watching you suffer.”

José Jaime is from Spain and is studying at university. He had to do a project about reading one 50-word story aloud, and that encouraged him to create his own.