{"id":81081,"date":"2026-02-21T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/us-man-on-dying-to-serve-tour-dies-after-cancer-fundraising-hoax-accusations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:00:13","slug":"us-man-on-dying-to-serve-tour-dies-after-cancer-fundraising-hoax-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/us-man-on-dying-to-serve-tour-dies-after-cancer-fundraising-hoax-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"US man on \u2018Dying to Serve\u2019 tour dies after cancer fundraising hoax accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/27ae7562ccb2f5e9c22f7d783b503c253f25e0f4\/126_0_3779_3024\/master\/3779.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=793265a9ca52db6c00a537a2a5d25656\" alt=\"US man on \u2018Dying to Serve\u2019 tour dies after cancer fundraising hoax accusations\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Travel<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">US man on \u2018Dying to Serve\u2019 tour dies after cancer fundraising hoax accusations<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Doug Ruch died in New Zealand in December after article called him a \u2018conman\u2019 but cause of death remains unknownA US man who spoke to various media outlets about having terminal cancer and raising money to travel for community service projects died shortly before Christmas in New Zealand \u2013 the day after an article by a journalist there accused him of actually being \u201can alleged serial conman\u201d.Authorities in the US and New Zealand recently confirmed Douglas Lee Ruch, 56, died in the capital of Auckland on 18 December, months after his so-called \u201cDying to Serve\u201d tour. The hundreds of thousands of dollars he raised on GoFundMe earned headlines in the Washington Post, National Public Radio and the Guardian. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/dying-to-serve-tour-man-dies-cancer-hoax-accusations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel US man on \u2018Dying to Serve\u2019 tour dies after cancer fundraising hoax accusations Doug Ruch died in New Zealand in December after article called him a \u2018conman\u2019 but cause of death remains unknownA US man who spoke to various media outlets about having terminal cancer and raising money to travel for community service projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":81082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}