They fell in love in college. Their wedding took place in his hospice room in Boston 10 days before he died.

A wedding held in a hospice room in Boston became a poignant final chapter for Robbie Fox and Kelli Peters, who married just 10 days before he died. Eight years after meeting as freshmen at Elon University in North Carolina, the couple gathered on April 15 with only seven relatives for an intimate ceremony at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Fox, 27, had entered hospice after his aggressive bone cancer took a turn. Earlier, two years into endurance training for a Half Ironman triathlon, Fox had fallen while biking; scans revealed multiple tumors and a diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma with an estimated 60 percent survival rate. City registrar Paul Chong visited the hospital to officiate after the couple obtained an accelerated marriage license on short notice. Fox died on April 25, with Peters by his side. A TikTok video of the wedding posted two days later reached hundreds of thousands, and Peters later traveled to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to stay with his family.