The Kelly Cai Foundation
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This is a fund, in honor of Kelly JinJin Cai, to help fight mental illness including severe depression. We love our dear Kelly forever and don't want any other family to go through what we went through.
ALL additional proceeds, beyond what we need for medical and funeral costs, will be donated to https://afsp.org/
We thank you so much in advance. This means everything to our family.
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Kelly Cai, the Cai family’s precious youngest daughter — who was 23, just graduated college and started a new job — passed peacefully last night, with her entire family by her side. We are absolutely grief-stricken beyond belief. No words can describe our pain.
Kelly was kind, generous, sweet, caring, loving, silly and just a remarkable person. She was selfless, and has taught us many lessons on how to be a better person. However, she had a long battle with depression. She knew her family and friends loved her dearly, but she had a difficult time nonetheless. We miss her but find solace in knowing that she is in eternal bliss.
Weiping and Zhenling, Kelly’s parents, brought Kelly to the ICU Monday night, on August 17th. She was in the ICU until she peacefully passed in her sleep last night, August 23rd. Belinda and Lisa, her sisters, truly believe she held on long enough for them to fly home from LA to be with her, by her side. They can’t thank her enough.
Everyone was able to hold her hand, kiss her, share memories, talk to her nonstop, stroke her hair and tell her she was loved, repeatedly. She is loved. She will forever be loved.
Sadly, the cost of days-long ICU stays are unbelievably expensive. The family is already suffering enough with the loss. Our parents are very financially savvy and wise, and have saved funds for all of us daughters since we were babies. They never expected to need an ICU and funeral fund, especially for their young daughter of 23.
We ask that you please help us with the hospital bills — as we know the cost of healthcare in this nation, even with great health insurance, is extremely high — and with the funeral we are planning.
Lisa and Belinda always looked forward to coming back home and spending time with Kelly. Never did they think they’d come home to plan their beautiful sister’s funeral. The entire family misses Kelly beyond words. We go from feeling numb, to waking up and bawling, to feeling angry, to feeling a sense of comfort knowing she’s at peace.
Kelly was a shy girl, though she did have close friends. You may not have known her, but anyone who met her knew she was a sweet, kind, beautiful soul. If you know Lisa and Belinda, know that she is like them, only more humble with a quiet sense of humor.
She was so generous. Kelly loved to treat everyone to food. She always offered to pay. She bought her parents dinner once a week. She loved animals — we once took in a stray cat, years ago, and Kelly LOVED this cat. She took care of her every day, and cried when we eventually brought the cat to a shelter. Kelly was very close with her last roommate’s cat and bonded with him, treating him like her own pet. She, of course, loved our cat Tina so much, and Tina always hung out in her room.
Kelly was an avid reader. She loved authors like Haruki Murakami, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, classic authors and so many more. She would go to the bookstore with Belinda; they did this last Christmas, just the two of them. She’d help Belinda pick out the books on her list, and wanted to read more intersectional feminist theory. She genuinely cared about social issues and the Black Lives Matter movement, and educated herself more all the time. It makes us all really proud.
Last New Years, Lisa and Kelly went to a party together. Lisa was so pleased, as Kelly was usually too shy to attend large social gatherings. Kelly had such a fabulous time. She and Lisa played drinking games together for the first time and laughed at how bad they were at it. They had such an amazing time together. Kelly’s New Year’s resolution was to make more friends. Though her life was cut short, she fulfilled this resolution.
Kelly was closest, by far, with her mother. They have innumerable memories, spending almost every day together. They have too many inside jokes to count or name. They are best friends, and shared everything with each other. When her mom would be sitting in the living room, Kelly would come over to make her mom laugh by doing “tai chi” in her own silly way. They went on walks, spent nights talking, went to the library together, watched movies and had quiet time together (Kelly studying, my mom painting).
Her dad used to travel a lot and Kelly would sneak her favorite stuffed animal in his suitcase, for him to discover the little token of her love when he’d arrive at his destination. In her third year of college, she was taking an operating systems class, which required a complex project. Her father helped her with coding, but she was honest and scrapped a lot of his work, and put forth her own effort. She worked very hard in college and was a person of integrity.
Kelly was a generous person in life and also now. She will be donating several viable organs to others in critical condition, to save their lives. She will be their miracle.
Any donation would help significantly. The last thing we want is for our parents, who have worked incredibly hard their entire lives and have been financially sound, to struggle more than they already are. We are all in the most severe pain we’ve ever experienced. We love Kelly and can never say it enough. We love her, we love her...
Please help us keep Kelly’s memory alive.
We thank you in advance for your donation.
ALL additional proceeds, beyond what we need for medical and funeral costs, will be donated to https://afsp.org/
We thank you so much in advance. This means everything to our family.
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Kelly Cai, the Cai family’s precious youngest daughter — who was 23, just graduated college and started a new job — passed peacefully last night, with her entire family by her side. We are absolutely grief-stricken beyond belief. No words can describe our pain.
Kelly was kind, generous, sweet, caring, loving, silly and just a remarkable person. She was selfless, and has taught us many lessons on how to be a better person. However, she had a long battle with depression. She knew her family and friends loved her dearly, but she had a difficult time nonetheless. We miss her but find solace in knowing that she is in eternal bliss.
Weiping and Zhenling, Kelly’s parents, brought Kelly to the ICU Monday night, on August 17th. She was in the ICU until she peacefully passed in her sleep last night, August 23rd. Belinda and Lisa, her sisters, truly believe she held on long enough for them to fly home from LA to be with her, by her side. They can’t thank her enough.
Everyone was able to hold her hand, kiss her, share memories, talk to her nonstop, stroke her hair and tell her she was loved, repeatedly. She is loved. She will forever be loved.
Sadly, the cost of days-long ICU stays are unbelievably expensive. The family is already suffering enough with the loss. Our parents are very financially savvy and wise, and have saved funds for all of us daughters since we were babies. They never expected to need an ICU and funeral fund, especially for their young daughter of 23.
We ask that you please help us with the hospital bills — as we know the cost of healthcare in this nation, even with great health insurance, is extremely high — and with the funeral we are planning.
Lisa and Belinda always looked forward to coming back home and spending time with Kelly. Never did they think they’d come home to plan their beautiful sister’s funeral. The entire family misses Kelly beyond words. We go from feeling numb, to waking up and bawling, to feeling angry, to feeling a sense of comfort knowing she’s at peace.
Kelly was a shy girl, though she did have close friends. You may not have known her, but anyone who met her knew she was a sweet, kind, beautiful soul. If you know Lisa and Belinda, know that she is like them, only more humble with a quiet sense of humor.
She was so generous. Kelly loved to treat everyone to food. She always offered to pay. She bought her parents dinner once a week. She loved animals — we once took in a stray cat, years ago, and Kelly LOVED this cat. She took care of her every day, and cried when we eventually brought the cat to a shelter. Kelly was very close with her last roommate’s cat and bonded with him, treating him like her own pet. She, of course, loved our cat Tina so much, and Tina always hung out in her room.
Kelly was an avid reader. She loved authors like Haruki Murakami, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, classic authors and so many more. She would go to the bookstore with Belinda; they did this last Christmas, just the two of them. She’d help Belinda pick out the books on her list, and wanted to read more intersectional feminist theory. She genuinely cared about social issues and the Black Lives Matter movement, and educated herself more all the time. It makes us all really proud.
Last New Years, Lisa and Kelly went to a party together. Lisa was so pleased, as Kelly was usually too shy to attend large social gatherings. Kelly had such a fabulous time. She and Lisa played drinking games together for the first time and laughed at how bad they were at it. They had such an amazing time together. Kelly’s New Year’s resolution was to make more friends. Though her life was cut short, she fulfilled this resolution.
Kelly was closest, by far, with her mother. They have innumerable memories, spending almost every day together. They have too many inside jokes to count or name. They are best friends, and shared everything with each other. When her mom would be sitting in the living room, Kelly would come over to make her mom laugh by doing “tai chi” in her own silly way. They went on walks, spent nights talking, went to the library together, watched movies and had quiet time together (Kelly studying, my mom painting).
Her dad used to travel a lot and Kelly would sneak her favorite stuffed animal in his suitcase, for him to discover the little token of her love when he’d arrive at his destination. In her third year of college, she was taking an operating systems class, which required a complex project. Her father helped her with coding, but she was honest and scrapped a lot of his work, and put forth her own effort. She worked very hard in college and was a person of integrity.
Kelly was a generous person in life and also now. She will be donating several viable organs to others in critical condition, to save their lives. She will be their miracle.
Any donation would help significantly. The last thing we want is for our parents, who have worked incredibly hard their entire lives and have been financially sound, to struggle more than they already are. We are all in the most severe pain we’ve ever experienced. We love Kelly and can never say it enough. We love her, we love her...
Please help us keep Kelly’s memory alive.
We thank you in advance for your donation.
Organiser and beneficiary
Belinda Cai
Organiser
Middletown, OH
Weiping Cai
Beneficiary