“Home and Away” actress Jess Falkholt has had her life support switched off, after failing to recover from the Boxing Day car crash that had already claimed the lives of her parents and sister.
Close friends had held a vigil by the bedside of the 28-year-old actress, who had been in a coma in St. George Hospital, in Sydney since the crash.
That hope faded.
On the evening of Thursday, Jan. 11, just one day after a funeral had been held for Falkholt’s parents and sister, her family agreed to switch off the life support.
“We made sure Jess wasn’t alone and her friends were able to be there with her,” a relative told the Daily Mail .
“Everything we have done and every decision we have made has been done with the advice of doctors and social workers. No decision is made without Jessica’s wants in mind.
D“Jess was a very private girl and while we’re thankful for public thoughts and interest, we are just trying to honour what she'd want.”
Falkholt’s parents, Lars, 69 and Vivian, 60, were killed instantly in the Boxing Day crash.
Her sister Annabelle, 21, initially survived, but died three days later in the hospital on Dec. 29.
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