{"id":18632,"date":"2025-06-30T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=18632"},"modified":"2025-06-30T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:51:06","slug":"influencer-posts-final-heartbreaking-plea-after-announcing-his-own-death-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=18632","title":{"rendered":"Influencer posts final heartbreaking plea after announcing his own death on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header_header__gD613\">\n<div class=\"article-header_meta__N4zeN\">\n<h2 class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\">He&#8217;d made the announcement just a few days earlier<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-header_metaWrapper__P4a1g\">\n<div class=\"article-header_shareLink__FtU9x\">\n<div class=\"share-link_container__q9th7\">\n<div class=\"share-link_desktopTabletShareArrowWrapper__Gchyi\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"share live post\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content-template_body__RWRhb\">\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>A TikTok star who died from cancer at the age of just 30 shared a heartbreaking final plea after announcing his own death.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"kiaaq69f5efef75c4d\" ><div style=\"width:100%; max-width:1200px; margin:0 auto;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/bolt-casino.com?r=0BFDBF1283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img \n      src=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8693ebb-2018-480f-a2f7-0096810c07f0.jpg\" \n      alt=\"200% Deposit Bonus + 10% Cashback\" \n      style=\"width:100%; height:auto; display:block; border-radius:8px; cursor:pointer;\"\n    \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.kiaaq69f5efef75c4d {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.kiaaq69f5efef75c4d {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.kiaaq69f5efef75c4d {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.kiaaq69f5efef75c4d {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.kiaaq69f5efef75c4d {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Tanner Martin had documented his life with\u00a0wife\u00a0Shay Martin since 2020, following his terminal\u00a0cancer\u00a0diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Earlier this week, his account released\u00a0a video of himself announcing the news of his tragic death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Saying that he wanted his &#8216;final message&#8217; to be &#8216;lighthearted,&#8217; he went on to speak about his &#8216;heck of a life.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cLife was awesome. I really enjoyed it while I was here,\u201d he shared. \u201cHopefully, I believe there\u2019s something after this. I\u2019m excited to meet those people, and hopefully we\u2019re hanging out now and making fun of all you nerds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Tanner was diagnosed with\u00a0colon cancer when he was 25, and was told three years later that the illness could not be cured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He was given between two and five years left to live. 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Tanner was a huge\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0fan and he managed to meet Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">And now, Tanner had a final message to share on TikTok &#8211; a plea for the future of his family; Shay and their baby daughter, AmyLou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Admitting that, sadly, his daughter may not have many, if any, memories of him alive, he told of how he had set up\u00a0a GoFundMe page\u00a0to help provide for his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cI just want to know that Jiaozi (his daughter&#8217;s nickname) and Shay will be okay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He didn&#8217;t want Shay to carry the financial burden all on her own, and had thought hard about how they&#8217;d allocate the money they raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The family set up an initial target of $250,000, which has since moved to $750,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On the GoFundMe page, they explained how the first $90k or so will cover immediate costs such as rent, bills, food, counseling, baby essentials and medical and funeral expenses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU resizable-image_lowRes__5OkaL resizable-image_fadeOut___ZcLy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt60ac40c6500d75dd\/685eb7cd2ed5414372f3a41f\/Screenshot_2025-06-27_at_16.24.16.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 33vw, (max-width: 768px) 50vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, 33vw\" 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people in my situation,\u201d Tanner\u00a0told\u00a0People in October last year. \u201cThis is something you want to prep for. You don\u2019t want your spouse to have to plan your funeral and maybe not even have enough money to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Part of the prep involved working with a death doula, a person who helped the couple with end-of-life planning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiktok-embed_tiktok__FJOwE\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\"><iframe title=\"7519962498817117470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed\/7519962498817117470\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Shay announced in a TikTok post shared in November that she was pregnant, and she gave birth to their daughter, AmyLou, on May 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Speaking about their decision to have a baby, a caption on a TikTok video announcing the baby news read: &#8220;Cancer has taken so much from us. I know you wanted to be a dad so badly, but I got to see you be the best dog dad. We tried IVF and planned to have a baby, but sepsis and your cancer progressing prevented us. Until now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Symptoms of colon cancer can include a change in bowel habits, blood in the stool and rectal bleeding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Other signs might manifest as stomach cramps or pain, fatigue, tiredness or unexplained weight loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;d made the announcement just a few days earlier A TikTok star who died from cancer at the age of just 30 shared a heartbreaking final plea after announcing his own death. Tanner Martin had documented his life with\u00a0wife\u00a0Shay Martin since 2020, following his terminal\u00a0cancer\u00a0diagnosis. Earlier this week, his account released\u00a0a video of himself announcing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Influencer posts final heartbreaking plea after announcing his own death on TikTok - VM News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=18632\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Influencer posts final heartbreaking plea after announcing his own death on TikTok - VM News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He&#8217;d made the announcement just a few days earlier A TikTok star who died from cancer at the age of just 30 shared a heartbreaking final plea after announcing his own death. 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