On August 3, Logan Stevenson was carried down the aisle by his mother, Christine Swidorsky.  The terminally ill two-year-old was serving as his parents’ best man at their backyard wedding in Jeanette, Pennsylvania.  By Monday night, Logan had passed away in his mother’s arms, reports the Daily Mail.  The wedding had been moved up from July 2014 when the family found out that Logan was not going to live much longer, according to a previous National Monitor article.

Logan was born October 22, 2010 with Fanconi anemia.  It is a rare inherited bone marrow failure syndrome (IBMF), reports Medscape.  Of the rare IBMFs, Fanconi anemia is the most common.  This disease often leads to the development of cancer.  Also, 75 percent of individuals with Fanconi anemia have birth defects.  Fanconi anemia can also result in liver tumors, hemorrhages, myelodysplastic syndrome, and infections.  The National Cancer Institute points out that, in one-fourth of those diagnoses with Fanconi anemia, there are no physical effects.  Some people born with Fanconi anemia go undiagnosed until after the age of 50.

When Logan was one, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) describes acute myeloid leukemia as a cancer of the white blood cells resulting in overproduction of myeloblasts, a type of white blood cell.  In adults, acute myeloid leukemia is the most common type of acute leukemia.  In children, there are 500 diagnoses of acute myeloid leukemia every year, accounting for one-fifth of leukemia diagnoses, according to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.  While Logan’s case was not so fortunate, acute myeloid leukemia has a relatively high survival rate in children.  On average, 70 percent of children go into long-term remission.

People reports that Logan underwent a stem cell transplant last year.  Due to a tumor, he had to have one of his kidneys removed.  When doctors found a mass on his other kidney, he was given a terminal prognosis.  Knowing that he only had two or three weeks to live, his parents decided to have their wedding so he could be there.

At his funeral, Reverend Jan Zotter described the worldwide impact Logan had made, reports the New Pittsburgh Courier.  The funeral, held at the Mason-Gelder Funeral Home in Jeanette, was attended by 75 family members and friends.  The guests left notes of remembrance and support and Zotter reminded them that, though it is difficult to understand now, the death of a child is one of the mysteries of God that can only be answered when reunited with the child.