Chapter 6 | Update

Jill Emberson died on December 12, 2019, four years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Jill has won an award, started a massive new campaign and tried two different treatments for ovarian cancer, so we thought it was about time for a Bonus Episode to keep you up to date.

It’s early 2018, and Jill is going back into chemo, but this time it’s palliative. If the treatment is a success it will buy her a healthy window of time for her wedding and honeymoon.

Jill starts the fight to get on a drug trial that won’t cure her cancer but could buy her a few more years.

Nine months after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Jill is told her cancer is back. That makes it terminal.

Jill’s daughter Malia was studying overseas when Jill was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Malia and Jill remember that conversation, and the emergency trip home.

Jill Emberson is in hospital recovering from emergency brain surgery when she proposes to her partner of 7 years, Ken. He says no.

We all know we’ll die one day, but what’s it like to live life with death in sight?