Australian pop star and breast cancer survivor Kylie Minogue has lost her close friend and chauffeur Nigel McCarroll to cancer. McCarroll supported Minogue through her cancer struggles into cancer survivorship. Attending the funeral, she laid a wreath in the shape of his favourite Audi car at the crematorium service, according to Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network.

A friend is quoted as saying, "Kylie was devastated that the disease Nigel helped her fight took his life."

Being a cancer survivor is bittersweet, when some of those you are close to, or become close to during cancer treatments and recovery, do not make it with you. There is always a lining of sadness to the celebrations of being alive, of beating cancer, of knowing you survived cancer. You do not forget the ones who are lost to cancer.

In honoring the memory of those who walked with you, you do not allow yourself to forget. And in those times, when you lose someone close who journeyed along side you in the fight to live, being a survivor holds little in triumphant feelings when you know that someone else fighting the same disease did not make it. You question the fairness of life -- and realize it is not fair at all.