Teen dies following horror housewarming accident on the Gold Coast
The 18-year-old was found unresponsive on June 24.
He suffered several strokes on the night before having brain surgery.
Mr Blundell sadly died on Monday, June 30.
His sister Izabella Cromack-Hay said on GoFundMe: 'We are all in disbelief and major pain.'
Ms Cromack-Hay told The Courier Mail her brother was about to embark on a new chapter with his girlfriend, after recently moving from the Central Coast in New South Wales to Queensland's Southport.
'He was celebrating moving into the Meriton on Southport beach with his best friend Mitchell Bullard when he did a backflip and hit his head,' she said.
'He hit his head in the lounge room on the ground and had a headache went to bed, woke up went to the toilet vomiting and then passed out that's when his best friend found him unresponsive in the morning.
'Moving to Queensland only a month ago, which was his greatest accomplishment, he worked the hardest concreting and making himself known.'
Ms Cromack-Hay said Mr Blundell was the kindest, loving and nurturing man you could have met.
She told the masthead they had facetimed on the day before he hit his head.
Mr Blundell's sister now is aiming to bring him back home to his sisters in New South Wales.
'I ask everyone to still support our family as we need to bring Sonny home as his sisters are waiting for him,' she said on GoFundMe.
'We are all here in Queensland trying our hardest to organise this horrible time and prepare ourselves.'
A fundraiser is open on GoFundMe to raise a target of $28,000 for "Sonny's Mum, his sisters, family, and Sonny's funeral".
So far, just under $22,000 has been raised from 394 donations.
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