A 21 -year -old Tiktok star died of colon cancer after he announced his followers earlier this month that his doctor gave him weeks to live.
The death of Dominique McShain was confirmed by the people on Wednesday, a year after the influencer based in New Zealand revealed that he had diagnosed bone with colorectal cancer incurable last April.
The exact date of his death is still unknown.
McShain wrote an Instagram heartbreaking publication to his followers on April 6, sharing that he would no longer publish content when he approached at the end of his life.
“I want to be direct with all of you: this will be my final update on my cancer trip until I died,” he wrote. “I have recently made a forecast about five days of just a few days a few weeks to live.”
She shared that her liver was “failing rapidly”, which caused her cancer to spread and made it impossible to recite treatments, including chemotherapy in which she had her leg during the last 7 months.
“At this point, I have made the transition to attention at the end of life, focusing on pain relief and handling side effects, with so much time spent both the hospital and hospice facilities,” McShain shared.
The Tiktoker said that, although her life can be short, “really” felt that he had “squeezed everything.”
“I won the lottery with a family that loves me unconditionally, friends who would donate at 1000% to me or did anything to me (and probably discuss who does), and the sweetest husband, Septer my rock, who wrote my leg my rock, and my rock triumphs, and the leg through the leg” wrote “McShain” McShain. “
The social networks star committed to her boyfriend are Suson in May 2024, on the 21st birthday of MCShain and months after her cancer diagnosis. The couple married that knot that July.
“Whether for the course, there are so many key adult moments that I won to experiment, things I won to be or have, and that is something I have had to accept,” McShain 6 post wrote.
“However, the complaint of what I am missing is no longer overwhelming. Recently, I have found a sense of acceptance.”
The Tiktokker told his followers that all the bad news received from the doctors during the last year have “desensitized” for “pain”, but also allowed him to find “peace” with his situation.
“Recently, I have been imagining the sky often, a place where it will finally be free of the pain that has been with me for so long. I imagine myself constant suffering, which no longer needs medications to survive the day,” he surrounded.
“I can run, breathe, feel complete. I thought it hurt to leave them behind, please, I know that I will finally be without pain and be at peace.”
McShain concluded his publication by expression his gratitude to his loved ones and followers for being in his life.
The 21 -year -old content creator had created his followers or about 200,000 followers on social networks by spreading the awareness of the symptoms he was experiencing the battle of the door with colon cancer.
In his first video about Tiktok in May 2024, McShain shared how cancer finished his university career before he could graduate.
“I was, until two weeks ago, a third -year psychology student, and wanted to make a clinical psychology an oaly. And that would take another five years to study,” McShain said in the video, Wie got more thanks. Severe cancer, and the treatment is very intense. “
He also said he wanted to raise awareness about his illness.
“I wanted to make a difference in some way and leave something behind and, hopefully, help people,” McShain said.
“I know that cancer is becoming much more common in the colon for young people, so I really wanted to share my symptoms and raise awareness.”
In 2020, there were around 1.9 million new cases of colon cancer registered worldwide, and more than 930,000 people lost their lives of this disease, according to the National Library of Medicine.
Australia, New Zealand and Europe had the highest rates of diagnosing colon cancer.
In the US, it was estimated that more than 107,000 new cases of colon cancer will be for the end of 2025, with more than 54000 diagnosed in men and more than 52000 in women, according to the American cancer society.
From 2012 to 2021, rates among people under 50 have constantly had an alarming increase of 2.4% per year.
