oh thats horrible. I suppose if I was in that situation all you can do is hope for the best. And in this case it didn't turn out.
I hoper the family all pull through it OK. Its hard to deal with when they are so young.
I remember when my friend died when we were at high school, I went to her funeral, and her mother was distraught and couldn't ever walk out of the church she was basically carried. That image of her following her daughter out of the church has stuck with me forever, I think it was the first time I had ever seen someone grieving like that.