She wasted away before our eyes, her limbs shrinking, her hair growing finer, her body weaker, eyes bigger. Yet her brilliant smile remained the same, and she hid none of it. Not the tubes, not the frailty, not the wheelchair, not her jutting bones.
Reflected in the moniker she proudly gave herself, Bowel Babe, Deborah James, 40, never did hide from her cancer, or hide it from the world.
She continued to document the last weeks of her life up until just days ago as she had since her initial diagnosis of Stage Four bowel cancer in 2016, aged just 35, allowing us to see what is so often hidden: the end of a life.
