Heartbreak after woman, 34, dies hours after starting to feel ill
17.03.2024 - 18:39
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A beloved daughter was found dead in her sister's bed just hours after feeling ill.
Natalie Anne Caine, from Rawtenstall, Lancashire, suddenly passed away on Tuesday, February 20. The 34-year-od, who worked at the Card Factory in Rawtenstall, started vomiting and coughing in the morning.
She said she was suffering from heart palpitations but her breathing seemed normal. Her mother, Eileen suggested to Natalie that eating and drinking may help her and she said goodbye and left home for work at 12pm, LancsLive reports.
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Natalie, affectionately called Nat, did not come downstairs all day apart from in the morning. Her father, Patrick, presumed that she went to sleep but he later found Natalie dead on her sister Beth’s bed at 3.30pm.
Beth had only arrived home from seeing a friend an hour earlier. She made the heartwrenching phone call to Eileen to tell her that Natalie had passed away.
Eileen rushed home and found the ambulance had arrived within that 20 minute period of receiving the call from Beth, but Natalie was pronounced dead.
Eileen says Natalie did not fall ill on any other day and cannot understand how a generally healthy woman with no allergies could pass away so suddenly. An inquest has not been opened as the cause of her death is still being investigated.
Eileen said: “All of her friends say how much of a good friend she was and how she would listen to their problems. Nat was a lovely daughter and we liked having coffee together and talking.
“It has been really difficult for us, especially not knowing what happened to her. Young people don’t just pass away for no reason.”
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