Writer Toby Young pays tribute to ‘lovely and healthy’ half-sister Gaia Young, 25, as she dies suddenly after headache
WRITER Toby Young has paid tribute to his "lovely and healthy" half-sister after she died suddenly aged just 25.
Gaia Young had spent the day cycling in the sunshine but began to complain of a "severe headache".
“The death of a family member is always difficult to bear, but for a healthy 25-year-old to be suddenly taken from you is particularly hard. She was a lovely person, kind, funny, clever, creative, loyal, conscientious, endlessly curious. She had the world at her feet.
“I know we don’t live in a just universe, but I can’t escape the feeling this was a terrible injustice.”
Gaia was placed on a ventilator in ICU, but she didn't regain consciousness and sadly died on July 21.
Her death is being treated as unexplained because the first post-mortem carried out on her came back inconclusive.
Speaking to the , her mum Dorit Young, said: “It is so tragic. Gaia was an incredibly socially minded and engaged young person.
A UCLH spokesperson said: “Our deepest sympathies go to Gaia’s loved ones at this very sad and difficult time.
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"We are in contact with her family and reviewing the circumstances leading to her death.”