Rebecca Luna‘s daughter, Maya Findlay, is addressing the TikTok personality’s death by medical aid following a battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
“Homesick for my mom who will never exist in this lifetime again,” Findlay wrote in a Sunday, July 26, TikTok video.
The clip included a screen recording of a FaceTime call between Findlay and her late mother. Viewers could see Luna conversing with her grandchildren as the song “Sand Drawing” by Judah Earl played in the background.
“I miss my mom in a way that feels like homesickness. Like I just want to go home, but home was her🐞🤍,” Findlay added in the caption.
Luna died on Saturday, July 25, at age 49.
“Rebecca passed away July 25th at approximately 1:15 p.m. surrounded by her loved ones,” a post read via TikTok at the time. “Thank you for your support and privacy.”
Prior to her death, Luna was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease last year.
“I am in the very early stages of a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s. I am 48 years old. It feels really weird and vulnerable to put myself out there right now like this. But since I’ve been exploring this with my neurologist, I realized there’s not a lot of resources out there for young people facing this terrible disease,” she said in an April 2025 TikTok video, adding that she has “been able to connect with a few people” but felt like the disease was “isolating.”
Luna’s condition deteriorated quicker than expected, prompting the influencer to announce her wish to use medical aid in dying (MAID) to end her life. (According to the National Library of Medicine, MAID is a practice in which a physician provides a patient suffering from a terminal illness with a prescription for a lethal drug dose, allowing them a purposeful and peaceful death.)
“Hi, as a lot of you know I was diagnosed at age 48 with Young Onset Alzheimer’s. I’m 49 and I will be accessing MAID as my decline has come faster than I had hoped,” Luna wrote via GoFundMe. “I’ve been a single mama (proudly) all my life so my lovely followers suggested I do a go fund me for the end of life expenses so I don’t leave my loved ones behind with that responsibility [on top] of their own grief. All blessings and well wishes are warmly appreciated and I love you all. I couldn’t have come this far without you.”
Luna shared in her final TikTok video, uploaded on July 22, that she had moved her MAID date to Friday, July 24.
“Prior to the dates changing for the last year and a half has been legally and medically not my choice, OK? But for the last two weeks I’ve been making the decision,” Luna said in the video. “And it’s a hard decision to make, I have to tell you, because I’m living in a body that doesn’t feel comfortable, safe, good, nothing. It feels terrible. And so the idea of waiting two weeks felt like too much.”
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