Remembering with Love

Yasmin Isabelle Juliette Tarn

15th January 2003- 2nd August 2025

Our daughter Yasmin died on 2nd August 2025.

Yasmin lived with a brain tumour for 4 years and 8 months following her diagnosis. During Yasmin’s illness she went through 2 surgeries, 1 course of radiotherapy, a number of chemotherapies and a couple of new treatments too. But heartbreakingly, in the end, in spite of the efforts of her wonderful team of doctors and nurses (under Dr Henry Mandeville) at the Royal Marsden Teen and Young Adult Unit in Sutton, Yasmin’s tumour (an anaplastic astrocytoma) was just too aggressive.

We are devastated but take much comfort from the fact that Yasmin lived so well and so fully in her 22 years. Before her diagnosis she was a sunny, positive, active, funny human and after her diagnosis she maintained the same strong and beautiful spirit. As our son Charlie said at her funeral, Yasmin ignored her cancer and she certainly did not let it define her. Yasmin was incredibly good at adapting to her situation. For example, when she was not well enough to continue at university, she immediately signed up for an online TEFL course and spent a year teaching English online to students all over the world. Yasmin signed up for that course in the very same month that she had her second brain surgery.

Yas loved the outdoors and remained active until the final few months of her life. Swimming, hiking, running, playing tennis, walking. And her friends and family had no option but to join her! There was no time for laziness because, for example, ‘you never regret a walk’. That has now become a family mantra.

Yas was perceptive and wise and she used these qualities to be funny. She was the Queen of the one liner.

Yasmin was incredibly resilient and because of that she dealt with her illness in a way that made it easy for those around her. She was the leader and we followed. This included her impressive fundraising for the Brain Tumour Charity. Yasmin raised over £41,000 for the charity in the years after her diagnosis. She received incredible support from her friends when orgasnising a team of runners for the London Run in February this year. Yasmin managed to walk 10km as part of ‘Team Yas’. We’re not sure how she did it and it was probably the last time she was able to walk such a long way. But she did it, with only the help of a walking stick, a foot brace and her Mum. Just a few weeks later Yas was using a wheelchair which shows her incredible determination that day.

We would like to continue what Yasmin began and hope to continue to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity and down the line any other charities which support the development of research for the treatment and care of teens and young adults with brain tumours.

Yasmin’s Memorial will be on Friday 26th September 2025 and so we thought we would set up this page in case anyone would like to donate a gift to the Brain Tumour Charity in her memory and in memory of so many others like her.

Here is a little section from Yazzie’s last Just Giving Page. We couldn’t say it any better.

‘‘My name is Yasmin and I am raising money for the Brain Tumour Charity as I was diagnosed with a brain tumour just before my 18th Birthday. Please donate generously - it means a lot to me and could really help all of those affected. Brain tumours are really underfunded and any donations will be really appreciated especially, the big ones!

A great big thank you!

Yas xxx’

And a heartfelt thank you from

Pete, Alex, Charlie and Saskia Tarn, Yasmin’s Family.