Oh, come on, that's cheap. No, I don't mean to say that irl illness and death are cheap, but they are certainly the cheapest, laziest tools in the tearjerker arsenal. I kinda anticipated it from the drama+tragedy tag combo, along with the description, but man...
Is that all there is to good writing? Throw in some (soon to be) dead girls, and you're in for the award?
God I'm disappointed.