A grieving wife has shared her husband’s touching final words before he tragically lost his battle with cancer when infection took over his body.
Melbourne entrepreneur and millionaire property developer Jonathan Hallinan, 47, sadly passed away on Thursday after a two-year battle with cancer.
He was given a bone marrow transplant in 2021 but sadly it was not enough to save him.
Mr Hallinan, who was the founder and managing director of construction group BPM Corp and had an estimated net worth of $866million, is survived by his wife Mikka Hallinan and their three children.
In a heartfelt post to Instagram, Ms Hallinan said her husband had died peacefully at the Royal Melbourne Hospital after ‘spending two days sharing “beautiful goodbyes” with his close family’.
Mikka Hallinan shared the touching last words her husband Jonathan spoke before he tragically lost his battle with cancer on Thursday
Mr Hallinan was the founder and managing director of construction group BPM Corp, as well as Strings of Life cafe and Grandmaster Recorders
‘Jonnie passed in the storm [Thursday] morning,’ she wrote.
‘In his own words, Jonnie said he was going home’.
Ms Hallinan said her husband had found ‘a deep comfort in faith’ while sick in hospital.
‘Now he is home to his “eternal bliss” as he called it,’ she said.
Ms Hallinan said a doctor had broken the bad news to Mr Hallinan last week that a drug trial he was hoping to take part in wouldn’t be possible.
The doctor said his body was too busy fighting off an infection and he had ‘overall unwellness from the level of his disease in his body’.
She said her and Mr Hallinan’s family had been by his side during his final days, before he ‘left us for the sky, in true Jonnie style, arriving with a bang’.
‘It was an absolute privilege to have been his wife and to have been able to love him and blend his family with my own,’ she said.
Ms Hallinan admitted she was experiencing emotional pain but had found comfort in knowing she had helped her husband find ‘true freedom’.
The couple eloped in November, with Ms Hallinan sharing they wanted to spend ‘the latest part of Jonnie’s recovery from cancer as husband and wife
She also spoke of Mr Hallinan’s admirable reputation among family and friends.
‘Those who knew him also know that he packed so much accomplishment, adventure, achievement and fun into such a short time he was here, leaving an impact and legacy behind in more people than he would have ever imagined,’ she said.
Ms Hallinan added in an Instagram story on Sunday that she would continue to share the couple’s memories with her followers.
‘We shared so much of our journey with so many of you all, including those struggling to come to terms with the loss of Jonnie, people in the cancer community and those battling their own adversities,’ she said.
‘So I’m going to continue sharing the things I’m doing to help navigate through these difficult times and maybe they can help some of you too.’
Mr and Mrs Hallinan with their three kids before his tragic death
The couple eloped in November, with Ms Hallinan sharing they wanted to spend ‘the latest part of Jonnie’s recovery from cancer as husband and wife’.
They got married just a day before he started his last round of cancer treatment, and celebrated at their South Yarra penthouse.
In his last post to Instagram in December, Mr Hallinan shared that a setback in his health had been ‘taking absolutely all the strength I’ve got left’.
‘It is important for me to preserve all remaining energy for myself and my family,’ he wrote.
‘I appreciate your understanding when I haven’t gotten back to you, or am not responding to your calls or cannot see you. It’s not personal, I am just at my limit’.
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