Friends of girl, 18, with leukemia sign her casket with loving messages in a final goodbye after she died waiting for a hospital bed during a shortage in Canada
- Laura Hillier, 18, died after waiting for a bone marrow transplant during a hospital bed shortage in Canada, despite having willing donors available
- An Ontario hospital said it could only do five transplants a month and there were about 30 people who were waiting to have the procedure done
- At her funeral, friends and family signed her casket with loving messages
- The Hillier family is now fighting in Laura's memory to end 'deadly' wait times for hospital beds in Canada
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