Jared Noel, the young Auckland-based doctor and dad-to-be battling terminal bowel cancer who, when things took a sudden turn for the worse, went public with his quest to stay alive long enough to meet his little girl, Elise. He wrote a book for her called 'Message to My Girl: A dying father's powerful legacy of hope'. The first anniversary of Jared's death was 8 October 2015 - with wife Hannah Noel and co-author David Williams.