Australian journalist, Natalie Fornasier, has passed away six months after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The 28-year-old’s death was confirmed in an obituary shared by the Sydney Morning Herald, where her loved ones remembered her as the "Beloved wife of Alexander. Much loved Sister of Alex, loving daughter of Peter and Lorena. Adored daughter-in-law of Kirsten."
"She will be dearly missed by her Grandparents, Aunties, Uncles, Cousins, Natalie’s German family and devoted 'Little Helpers'," it read.
Natalie sadly passed on January 14, only two months after she tied the knot to her “true love”, Alexander.
She was first diagnosed with stage III metastatic melanoma in October 2014. Natalie chose to document her journey on Instagram, discovering she only had “months left to live” at the end of July.
“It’s a word I had been skating around for years, a word that terrified me because I always knew it could be a possibility,” she wrote at the time.
“But it’s also a frame of mind I never anticipated I would have to enter.
“As I descended into what it meant to be terminal — I entered the deepest hole of depression I’ve ever experienced. Every day for the past four months, I’ve cried and screamed.”
Natalie has had her work published in Refinery29, POPSUGAR Australia, The Latch, Mamamia, ELLE and Marie Claire, to name a few, and has left behind a brilliant legacy.
Some of her friends have created a GoFundMe page to allow “Alexander and my family to be able to grieve without financial worry for what’s around the corner.”
Money from the GoFundMe page “is to cover future funeral expenses, living expenses for Alexander as he grieves and to remove any additional financial worry.
“It’s also just to ease the pain of what’s about to happen to Natalie and her family,” the description reads.
Donations to Fornasier’s GoFundMe can be made here.
Follow Natalie's Instagram here.
Image credit: Instagram/@nataliefornasier
