Cibele Marchis, 28, and her mother, Maria Elisabete Nogueira, 56, died just hours apart after both battling cancer. Now, the family has shared heartbreaking details about their deaths.
Losing a loved one to cancer is an unimaginable experience for any family. But few families are forced to grieve the loss of two loved ones to cancer within just hours of one another. That is the heartbreaking reality now facing the family of Cibele Marchis, 28, and Maria Elisabete Nogueira, 56.
Cibele died in Mogi Guaçu, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, at 4 p.m. on September 24. Her mother, who was being treated at a different hospital, died only ten hours later, at approximately 2 a.m. on September 25.
Had made a heartbreaking request
Before their deaths, both Cibele and Maria had made a special request: They did not want to be told if the other died while they were apart. As a result, Maria was not aware of her daughter’s death when she passed away.
“Neither of them wanted to see the other die,” Cibele’s cousin Rowilson Leandro da Costa told G1, according to UNILAD. “They even talked about it, sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously — and it happened. Neither of them knew about the other’s death. It’s truly astonishing.”
Cibele’s father was then left to mourn both his daughter and his wife.
“He lost his family. To come home and find no one there anymore – it’s sad, difficult,” Rowilson added.
In an Instagram post from 2025, Cibele explained that she had been diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer.
