On 0ctober 2, 2018, Strauss was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer after she was feeling sick since last month. It had aggressively spread throughout her body and was incurable. Strauss, who two days later confirmed that the name of her illness was rapidly progressive metastatic inflammatory breast cancer, explained that undergoing chemotherapy and treatment may help extend her doctors' original prognosis who gave her ''few months'' at first. She quit chemotherapy around Halloween and moved into a hospice where she died on December 4, 2018 around 11 am at the age 34, just two months after her diagnosis. She was unconscious for a few days before her death.