The number of deaths as a result of the coronavirus continues to climb, and it's taking people of all ages. Washington state resident Sundee Rutter was only 42 when she died of the virus on Mar. 16, and her six children were only able to say goodbye to her via a walkie-talkie.

As BuzzFeed News reports, Rutter was recovering from a battle with breast cancer when she was among the first wave of people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Washington state. "She thought she had the flu, probably," her 20-year-old son, Elijah Ross-Rutter said, explaining that she took herself to Providence Regional Medical Center on Mar. 3. "But like, the coronavirus? It was kind of hard for us to understand how she could get it because not that many people had it around here."