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Mum and daughter both die from cancer 10 hours apart

metro.co.uk · 5h · first report

Cibele Marchis, 28, died hours before her mum Maria Elisabete Nogueira, 56, in the Brazilian city of Mogi Guacu (Picture: cibelemarchiss) A mother and daughter diagnosed with cancer at the same time have both died 10 hours apart. Cibele Marchis, 28, died at around 4pm on Thursday while her mum Maria Elisabete Nogueira, 56, was sedated in another hospital in the same Brazilian city of Mogi Guacu, around 100 miles northwest of Sao Paulo . Family and friends were still at Cibele’s wake when they learned of Maria’s death. The pair were buried together in a joint funeral at a municipal cemetery. Rawlinson Leandro da Costa, Maria Elisabete’s nephew and a cousin of Cibele, told local media after their deaths: ‘Neither of the two wanted to see the other die. They even commented on it, sometimes jokingly, other times seriously, and it happened. One never found out about the other’s death. It really is an astonishing thing.’ Real estate and digital marketing worker Cibele, who had nearly 12,000

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