Patrick’s Personal Story

Patrick Mathieu was born with Congenital Heart Disease, which means that his heart formed incorrectly. On paper, the doctors classify it as “complex cardiac anatomy” and the detailed medical description continues for four paragraphs.

What happened next is best described in Patrick’s own words:

When I was eighteen years old, a cardiologist told me that he and his team hoped that I would live to be 30 years old!

In time, I transformed this diagnosis from a death sentence to a call to action.

It took six long and difficult years to come to terms with the news that his life was more than half over. But accepting and embracing his own mortality left Patrick a changed person. That’s when he discovered the Power of Mortality™.

Patrick took the numerals of his 30th birthday, converted them into a barcode, and had it tattooed on his arm where it serves as a daily reminder to live in the present moment.