This is Ben Hisoler. These are Nicole's personal blogs from when she was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2008 until November 2008. The blog starts from the end, so it is best to forward to DAY 1.
Nicole Dolci passed away on March 31, 2009 in Hollywood, CA. She was 34 Years of age.
She was with me and her family.
Her ashes were spread at the Hollywood Forever Funeral Home on April 4, 2009, in a beautiful ceremony on a sunny Hollywood day of close to 200 people.
On behalf of the Dolci family, Levene family and myself, I wanted to thank you for your love and support.
Nicole Dolci passed away after a courageous battle with colon cancer. She was diagnosed in July of 2008, and NEVER gave up. She would want all of us to continue this fight and NEVER GIVE UP.
When she was diagnosed in July, she did not lose sight of who she really was and stuck to the plan, continuing to go to work, showing courage, love and integrity.
Just last week, she was willing to even continue to tolerate more pain to fight for a future, for a life, for our dreams, for ALL OF US, all the way, until her last breath.
Nicole would not want ANY of us to give up on all our dreams either.
She has made so many people happy. The last seven years of my life with her were the most happy and joyful.
Please read her personal blog. I hope that it gives people inspiration to fight.
The family is asking instead of flowers to give donations to
Nicole Dolci Memorial Fund through the American Cancer Society’s Mosaic of Hope.
http://main.acsevents.org/goto/Nicole.Dolci
Also donations to the Humane Society
https://secure.hsus.org/01/kindred_spirits_jewelry
Other links:
Tribute Pictures on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34087&id=707886544&ref=mf
www.benjieandnicki.com
www.ashesofrosesproductions.com read her screenplay-She always wanted Gerard Way to play the lead...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6vu_nteu70 Acting Demo
I first met Nicole on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer out of all places. Red dress. Very cute. She went up to me and actually trusted this dorky Asian guy to watch her belongings. She actually liked my corny jokes. I was smitten.Months afterwards, we were together again playing our biggest roles yet, background monkeys on Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes. She was a chimp and I was an orangutan.After several comedy sketch show performances together, we then dated and eventually got engaged in front of the fountain where Ginger Rogers got married.The last seven years were the best years of my life. She was my family, and best of all I gained another family with Donna and Dean, Larry and Barbara and siblings, and also Mary DeVeny.
One of my favorite things is that she had a love my immediate family too, and often made fun of how loud Filipinos are, and how they would force her to eat all the time 24/7.
How will you remember her?
A daughter
A sister
A fiancée
A best friend
A mother to her four cats
How ironic that her favorite things in life were dark like My Chemical Romance, Edgar Allen Poe, Ravens, Titanic, Six Feet Under, Incubus, Vampires, Twilight, Dexter..
However, she was anything BUT dark. Nicole brought life to everyone around her. She had an amazing sense of humor.
We all had our hardest, most intense laughs with her.
Had our longest, deepest conversations with her.
Our largest roundest smiles
So, how will you remember her?
A lover
A fighter
A valedictorian
An actress
A comedienne
A loan processor
A compliance officer
A believer in free speech
A fighter for human rights
An animal lover
A My Chemical Romance Fan
A San Antonio Spurs fan
A loyal friend
BUT most importantly, she was NOT a quitter.
When she was diagnosed in July, she did not lose sight of who she really was and stuck to the plan, continuing to go to work, showing courage, love and integrity.
Just last week, she was willing to even continue to tolerate more pain to fight for a future, for a life, for our dreams, for ALL OF US, all the way, until her last breath.
Nicole would not want ANY of us to give up on all our dreams either.
So, how will you remember her?
Let’s celebrate Nicole Marie Dolci. And celebrate how she would want us to - in your own way.
I know she would want some of us to celebrate by watching her favorite movies like Half-Baked and Harold and Kumar, (if you know what I mean) wink wink.
Finally, I wanted to finish with one of her favorite quotes from Elton John’s “Your Song” where he says – “how wonderful life is, while your in the world.”
We will miss you.
-Ben Hisoler April 5, 2009
