Stand with Emma's Family in Their Time of Need

Emma passed away last night at 8:50pm.

We appreciate all of the donations so far for Emma’s family. Please consider donating for memorial and medical costs.

Please help Emma and her family!

I’m making this post, as I’ve known Tatum and her family for 44 years. No one is ever prepared to bury their 19-year-old daughter.

Message from Emma’s sister, Cheyenne.

Hello everyone, we are starting this GoFundMe for my 19-year-old sister, Emma Jeanne, in order to pay for hospital expenses and probable cremation/life celebration costs. She is currently in a coma after the Influenza A virus attacked her heart. This is extremely rare and caused her to go into heart failure and code multiple times in the Emergency room on 6/21. She has been kept alive by life supporting measures in the Cardio Vascular ICU since then. The care she had received here has been phenomenal, but the damage her brain received while coding is severe. If she ever even wakes up, she will never be the Emma we all know and love again. The doctors are not optimistic that she will survive this hospital stay.

If you know Emma, you know that she is a lover of animals and one of the most kindhearted people you could ever meet. She loves to game on her super fancy PC, watch anime, read, spend time with her cats, be outside, and debate about anything under the sun. She is quiet and introverted, but has always shown great tact in supporting the people she loves. She is so intelligent and loves to learn.

We know that she would not want to live in a way that leaves her with no independence over her own body or mind, so we will be withdrawing her life supporting care sometime over the next few days.

We ask that everyone thinks of her as she makes her journey into the afterlife, and that you think of our family as we mourn the unexpected loss of a beautiful daughter, sister, and friend.

Venmo: @tatefossett

PayPal: @amandahiginbothom