At 11.50pm on Saturday night, Terminally Fabulous blogger Lisa Magill passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family. She was only 34.
Her mum, Geraldine, shared the bittersweet news on Lisa’s Facebook page.
“Lisa’s passing was so peaceful, slipping away in her sleep without pain nor fear, just as we’d all prayed for and more importantly just as Lisa had wanted it,” she wrote.
“Her wee room was calmly lit with her rock lamp, her music had been playing and we’d held her hand and talked to her throughout the day, I just knew it was time.”
In 2013, Lisa was diagnosed with undifferentiated gastric sarcoma and told that she might only have weeks to live.
Four years later Lisa started her blog to show "the good, the bad and the ugly' sides of cancer.
Since then, she has shared the most harrowing, heartbreaking and beautiful moments of her life with her tens of thousands of social media followers.
Lisa and her family have opened up their lives and shared their struggles, their triumphs, their private pain.
They've been open and honest about the small moments of hope they've experienced and the devastating blows they were dealt.
They've shown us the heartbreaking reality of living and dying with cancer. The ups and downs. The heartrending feeling of being stuck in limbo when someone you love is fading away but is not quite ready to let go.
In doing so, they have given us an enormous gift.
They have opened our eyes so that we can begin to understand what cancer does to a person, and to the people who love them.
They have demonstrated living and dying with cancer is so much more devastating and all-consuming than we could ever imagine.
The Magills have shown us there is no rhyme or reason, no Hollywood endings.