Four years ago, The Star profiled the short life and death of three-year-old Stella Joy Bruner-Methven. She was, as Catherine Porter writes, 'red-haired, bright-eyed, bossy and wild... the centre of not just her parents’ lives, but of the lives of her extended family, which raised her like a village.' The story of her illness was not about diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) - a cruel and devastating tumour in the brain stem - it was about living with love, parenting death on your own terms, and living as exuberantly as little Stella did. In the years without her, her mothers, brothers, family, friends and even Star readers all say she is far from forgotten. Take a moment today to remember her.

Source: thestar October 22, 2016 03:11 UTC