June 4, 2022 – It is the Wave Gotik Treffen Festival weekend! I will be uploading photos from those wonderful people who are taking Jennifer to the festival. See them below!

Maureen’s Photos

These ones are from Maureen Plattner, who kindly offered to take Jennifer to WGT back in March. These were sent on June 3rd.

Here are the photos as a slideshow. They are also in a gallery below.

Maureen’s photos as a gallery. Click any photo to see full size instead of cropped thumbnail.

More photos to come! When they are all in, I will use them to create a video to post here.

Helmut’s Photos

Many people have offered to take pictures of Jennifer to the Wave Gotik Treffen music festival in Germany, which is absolutely amazing! However, one individual by the name of Helmut, is traveling all spring and summer to many of the music festivals in Europe, and has agreed to ‘take’ Jennifer with him to all of them! He has sent the following pictures from several events ahead of Wave Gotik Treffen. I hope Jennifer is enjoying them from the afterlife!

Click on any image to see full size image.

PEGGY’S PHOTOS

Peggy Schnitti Römer was another kind soul who asked for Jennifer’s pictures to take them to Wave Gotik Treffen. Here are the ones she sent me during the festival. They are all in the slideshow, with a gallery of them below. In the gallery, you can click on any image to see full size.

This year, 2021, started off with Jennifer healing and feeling much better. But that relief was short-lived as metastatic pleural effusion came back, and has been causing her the grief of breathing difficulties since March of this year.

Jennifer underwent several procedures to draw the fluid off her lungs, and then had catheters installed on each side of her torso as she required draining several times a week, and then on a daily basis. Jennifer was offered an expensive oral chemotherapy regimen back in the summer, as it was thought that it would hopefully reduce the amount of fluid being generated in her pleural spaces around her lungs and give her some relief. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case; the side effects were extreme nausea and insomnia, and Jennifer deemed that the treatment wasn’t worth the reduced quality of life, and opted for palliative care only.

Jennifer’s time with us is growing short. As she does not wish to die a natural death in hospice due to suffocation, she has chosen to use medical assistance in dying to spare herself the indignity and suffering that the cancer will bring if she should wait for death to come to her.

I’ve created this website for two purposes. The first being a place to honour Jennifer, where you can leave your messages of kindness and support for Jennifer, so she can spend her last days reading them and feeling your love for her. After she is gone, this website will be set up as a memorial to her and will be where the family will post information about the celebration of life that will be arranged at some point in the future.

So please, if you’ve kind words to share Jennifer, click ‘comment’ below and write your comment in the box that appears. For the time being, they will be unmoderated, so do Jennifer and the family the kindness of being polite at this time that is sensitive and difficult for us. Thank you.

~ Dawn Stilwell, Jennifer’s Sister

Jennifer passed away on November 13th, 2021 at 11:33 am, in her mother’s arms with her sisters and her best friend by her side. The family truly appreciates everyone who stopped by to show support for Jen in her final days. Thank you for helping to show Jen how much we all loved her.