{"id":7810,"date":"2019-06-19T22:37:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=251329"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","slug":"a-27-year-old-woman-passed-away-the-note-she-wrote-the-day-before-is-now-going-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/a-27-year-old-woman-passed-away-the-note-she-wrote-the-day-before-is-now-going-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"A 27-Year-Old Woman Passed Away. The Note She Wrote The Day Before Is Now Going Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared at American Web Media<\/a>.<\/span>Have you ever wondered what you\u2019ll be thinking about in your final days? Apparently, you\u2019re not alone. When Holly Butcher, a 27-year-old diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer, composed a note chronicling her life\u2019s key joys and regrets, the piece quickly went viral.<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s a strange thing to realize and accept your mortality at 26 years young,\u201d Holly reflected in \u201cNotes Before I Die\u201d and posted on Facebook. \u201cIt\u2019s just one of those things you ignore. The days tick by and you just expect they will keep on coming; Until the unexpected happens.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>\u201cI always imagined myself growing old, wrinkled and grey \u2013 most likely caused by the beautiful family (lots of kiddies) I planned on building with the love of my life. I want that so bad it hurts,\u201d Holly wrote in her note.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Holly was only 26 when doctors discovered she had a rare type of bone cancer. \u201cShe embodied good health,\u201d her brother Dean remembered. \u201cAs a dietitian, she ate all the right foods, she exercised regularly and didn\u2019t drink much alcohol. But that\u2019s the thing about cancer\u2026 it\u2019s non-discriminatory.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>By the time Holly was diagnosed, the cancer had progressed to Stage 4 and sadly spread throughout her body. \u201cShe didn\u2019t let it get the best of her,\u201d Dean said, recalling his sister\u2019s incredible bravery even as doctors didn\u2019t give her much time to live.<\/span>\u201cDespite the immense pain she was in, there was always something she looked forward to\u2026 throughout the whole ordeal, she was just so tough and resilient,\u201d he said.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThat\u2019s the thing about life,\u201d Holly wrote in her note. \u201cIt is fragile, precious and unpredictable and each day is a gift, not a given right. I\u2019m 27 now. I don\u2019t want to go. I love my life. I am happy\u2026 I owe that to my loved ones. But the control is out of my hands.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>In her final weeks, Dean asked Holly if she had any final wishes. \u201cShe happily replied, \u2018No. I was going to live a simple life. I didn\u2019t have big plans. I just wanted to live happily,\u2019\u201d he remembers. \u201cThose were her exact words because I recorded the conversation so I could listen to her voice afterward.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Holly\u2019s final missive should inspire the rest of us to live our lives to the fullest.<\/span>\u201cYou might have got caught in bad traffic today, or had a bad sleep because your beautiful babies kept you awake, or your hairdresser cut your hair too short,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYour new fake nails might have got a chip, your boobs are too small, or you have cellulite on your arse and your belly is wobbling.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>But in the end, these distractions just keep us from appreciating what really matters, she wrote: \u201cLet all that shit go. I swear you will not be thinking of those things when it is your turn to go. It is all SO insignificant when you look at life as a whole.\u201d<\/span>\u201cI\u2019m watching my body waste away right before my eyes with nothing I can do about it and all I wish for now is that I could have just one more Birthday or Christmas with my family, or just one more day with my partner and dog,\u201d Holly concluded. \u201cJust one more.\u201d<\/span>
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This story originally appeared at American Web Media.Have you ever wondered what you\u2019ll be thinking about in your final days? Apparently, you\u2019re not alone. When Holly Butcher, a 27-year-old diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer, composed a note chronicling her life\u2019s key joys and regrets, the piece quickly went viral.\u201cIt\u2019s a strange thing to realize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45769,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/45769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}