Cancer Victim Who Couldn’t Fly Home Dies
A terminally ill Air Force employee who unsuccessfully sought passage aboard a government air ambulance to spend his last days in his Massachusetts hometown has died, a Lancaster medical center spokesman said Thursday.
Avram Brody, 25, of Palmdale died late Tuesday, said a spokesman with the Antelope Valley Neuroscience Medical Group. Brody had been determined to have an inoperable brain tumor.
The family of Brody, who worked as an electronics engineer at Edwards Air Force Base for three years, was angry over the government’s refusal to fly Brody to Norwood, Mass., where he grew up. Air Force officials said regulations prohibited granting the request because he was a civilian.
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