I awoke today to find all of the ladies has passed away.

Lucky for my niece I have a copy of the game file from when there were still 6 ladies so I replaced her game with that one and will continue to try and get her the island event giving her either the barrel of babies or the visitors falling through the waterfall. I had almost forgotten that I saved the game file, as I had copied it over to my computer so I could try while she tried and hopefully one of us succeed, and it went into the wrong folder and I didn't delete it.