Heartbreaking message recorded by nine-year-old girl to her future unborn siblings telling them to be ‘always happy and nice’ are found on her cell two years after she died from cancer
- Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg was diagnosed with cancer in 2020
- She tragically died the same year after battling a rare liver cancer
A child who succumbed to cancer at the age of nine left a message on her mobile phone for her unborn siblings, reminding them to ‘always be happy and kind’, two years before she was diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and died in September, but she filmed this video in 2018, before her mother became pregnant with a sibling.
Her mother, Lacretia Riekeberg, did not find the video until 2022 when she decided to go through her daughter’s phone to look up old memories.
The 45-year-old from Chelsea, Alabama, USA, lost Destiny when she was just nine years old and is now mother to one-year-old Deuce, who will of course be shown the video when he is old enough to understand it.
Lacretia said: ‘She was an only child all her life and we never talked about having more children.
Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and died in September, but she filmed this video in 2018, before her mother became pregnant with a sibling
Lacretia Riekeberg shown with her son Deuce, born in 2022, four years after Destiny’s heartbreaking video
Destiny Riekeberg died in September 2020 after a battle with a rare liver cancer
‘The video was found on her two year angel anniversary, I was very sad in bed with her little brother who had only just been born.
“She had almost 3,000 videos on her phone in 2018 alone, the fact that I even looked at her phone that year and didn’t see it makes no sense.
‘What makes it so special is that before she was even sick, she didn’t know what was going to happen, but now it makes sense.
“She talked to me from heaven and led me to this video on her phone.
“It was incredible to have found this video, knowing that she never knew she was going to die or have a brother or sister.”
Lacretia explained in a May 2020 interview with WBRC in Alabama that Destiny was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer around Christmas.
Before that, she was a typical 8-year-old who especially loved cheerleading.
“As soon as the Christmas holidays came, boom, she was up for the count…I looked at her and thought, oh my God, my daughter looks like a cancer patient,” Lacretia said.
After Destiny was admitted to a local hospital, she underwent emergency surgery and battled the disease for the next four months.