Suzie Forrester was the celebrant for Hayley Cropper's funeral when she died of terminal cancer in January 2014. She visited Hayley several weeks before she died to discuss the details of the service, silencing the chatter in Roy's Rolls when she introduced herself and breaking the taboo around open discussion of death. She chatted to Hayley and Roy upstairs in the flat to gain some idea of her character for when she would speak at the service. She told Hayley that she seemed accepting of death but warned her not to be hard on herself when that changed. Hayley agreed that although she found some moments hard, she counted her blessings overall, being upbeat and positive. Roy, listening on, found it hard to be of the same frame of mind.