Lucas Borbas, widower of influencer Isabel Veloso, shared on social media a heart-shaped object containing his wife's ashes, who died at 19 from complications of a bone marrow transplant. In the post, he expressed his wish to carry the item as companionship and plans to take it to a destination she dreamed of, along with their son. The touching account reinforces Isabel's eternal memory in the family.
Lucas Borbas posted a symbolic image on social media on Monday (12/1), a day after Isabel Veloso's death the previous weekend. The 19-year-old influencer passed away due to complications from a bone marrow transplant. The featured object is a heart containing her ashes, which Borbas intends to carry not as a burden, but as a reminder of their shared love.
In the caption, he wrote: “This heart, with Bel's ashes inside, I want to carry with me. Not as something heavy, but as companionship. As a reminder of everything we were and the love that never ceased to exist.” Borbas plans to travel with the item and their one-year-old son Arthur to one of the places Isabel dreamed of visiting. He emphasized his intention to preserve the mother's story for the boy: “I will tell him who you were, how you loved, how you fought, how you lived intensely even when everything seemed impossible.” He concluded by stating: “You didn't become absence. You became root.”
This post follows an open letter dedicated to Arthur, shared the day before, where Borbas promised to be a present father in all stages of his son's life, offering shelter and care after losing his wife.
Netizens also resurfaced a letter written by Isabel to her son in October last year, during a hospitalization. In it, she addressed the temporary distance due to health treatment and her desire to witness Arthur's growth, assuring him he would never be alone.
The couple, who had Arthur a year ago, faced health challenges with Isabel, whose struggle inspired many followers.
