Teenager was a promising basketball player diagnosed with rare tumour . Was given two years to live at just 18 , which was reduced to two months . Lauren Hill defied the odds to carry on playing basketball for months more , raising money for research into childhood cancer before her death . At a public memorial today her casket was placed in the arena and at the site where she made her first basket , with items from her basketball career .
Lauren Hill was a promising basketball player diagnosed with rare tumour . Was given two years to live at just 18 , which was reduced to two months . Teenager defied the odds to carry on playing basketball for months more , raising money for research into childhood cancer before her death . At a public memorial today her casket was placed in the arena and at the site where she made her first basket , with items from her basketball career .