TRAGEDY: ROTORUA FAMILY LOSES ANOTHER DAUGHTER

A Rotorua family is in shock after losing a second young daughter - this time to a rare condition affecting the heart.
Kate Brewer was a fit and healthy 20-year-old, but died suddenly on June 12, doctors putting it down to Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
It is another blow for the Brewer family, who lost 11-year-old Luea in 1995. She had cerebral palsy and died from an epileptic attack.
The girls' parents, Alan and Chris Brewer, now have only one question - why?
"Why did she have to go? I keep looking at her photo and think she is going to burst in the door or crash in as she used to," Mrs Brewer told The Daily Post.
They described their daughter as popular, outgoing and fun-loving. Now the couple are helping their only surviving daughter, Kate's twin Nyssa, deal with another loss.
Kate, who was in her third year of a fine arts degree at Massey University in Wellington, was at home for the holidays when she died.
She had been at home for two days when she started "feeling off" with a headache.
 About 8pm the couple were in the lounge and Mr Brewer jokingly made the comment "she's probably got swine flu". Kate yelled from her room "I haven't got swine flu".
Those were the last words they heard from their daughter. About 45 minutes later, Mrs Brewer went to put some clothes in her daughter's room and found she had stopped breathing.
"We did CPR and called the ambulance. They arrived in three minutes. They raced her up to hospital."
Miss Brewer was put on life support and from Wednesday night to Friday morning about 20 of her closest friends as well as her family kept a vigil by her bed, hoping she would improve.
On Friday morning the Brewers had to make the decision to turn off life support and she died five minutes later, surrounded by her family.
"I couldn't believe it when the doctors said it was looking bleak. I said 'but that can't be, because we have already lost one'," Mrs Brewer said.
Mr Brewer said he remembered his wife screaming at him from their daughter's room.
"It's something I never want to hear again. It was horrific."
In a state of shock and confusion, the parents flashed back to the death of their other daughter.
"We didn't know whose death we were dealing with," Mr Brewer said.
 Miss Brewer's outlook on life can be summed up by three words on her cellphone: "life is peachy".
"She loved life, she loved people. She'd talk to anyone. She would get upset with people who were rude to the bus drivers in Wellington," Mrs Brewer said. She loved to help people, including senior students at her former school, Western Heights High School, as well as her mother, who is completing a bachelor of education, by proofreading their assignments.

The twins were to celebrate their 21st birthdays next month and had booked out Zippy Central Cafe. Nyssa said she would not be having the party now.
The couple urge parents to cherish their children and not put off telling them how much they are loved.
"Don't wait, you may never get another opportunity. I had a lot of things that I should have said more often to Kate and I was going to say them at her 21st. I got to say them in her eulogy," Mr Brewer said.