Megan's funeral takes place by the beach where her ashes are scattered into the ocean by her friends and family. Sean is opposed to this choice, but after he's given advice by a ghost ways in ways he can make Megan's suicide more comfortable (including milk to settle her stomach from all the pills, and a plastic bag over her head to suffocate her after she passes out from a pill overdose), Sean is present with Megan when she commits suicide in a hotel room. She decides that she would rather commit suicide than go through a slow, painful death.
Sean tries to seek out treatment with her, but it becomes obvious that it's terminal. Sean begins avoiding Megan's calls, but she comes to see him and tells him her cancer has returned, and it's metasticized to her lymph nodes. One night Matt was speaking to Sean about "coming clean," (his role in a hit and run) Sean mistakenly thinks Matt has discovered his affair, and admits it to him. Megan then decided to undergo the surgery since she had fallen in love with Sean, and wanted to be physically intimate with him without feeling self-conscious. Sean came to see her for a chiropractic adjustment when he started to have neck pains, and the two began an affair shortly after. As Sean walked her to her car, they briefly kissed. She cancelled her surgery, and told Sean that she had left her husband since he no longer saw her as a "whole" person anymore. Sean McNamara told her that she didn't have to undergo such a extensive surgery just to save her marriage, and brought up his own problems with his wife Julia. O'Hara's illness caused a rift between her and her husband, so she decided to get reconstruction, and implants that were bigger than her original breast size.ĭuring a private consultation, Dr. She didn't undergo any reconstruction following her surgery since she was already so physically weak from her treatments, and because one of her friends had a painful recovery after getting implants. Leaving her with extesive scarring on her chest and no nipples. Megan had gone through both radiation and chemotherapy before having a double mastectomy.