Daniella Thackray arranged for her family to post her final message as she was dying of cancer
A young woman who died from a rare form of cancer is posthumously going viral on social media after her final and poignant message was shared with the world online.
“If you’re reading this then it means I have died from my battle with cancer,” Daniella Thackray’s post says, adding that her family shared the message on her behalf.
“Firstly, I just want to say that not all cancers are caused by lifestyle choices. In some cases it’s genetics or unfortunately it just happens. In my case, despite me being very healthy and active, a cancer started in my bile ducts, which was not caused by anything in my control and my life was never the same again.”
Thackray, who was reportedly in her 20s, lost her life after fighting cholangiocarinoma.
It’s a rare and aggressive cancer, which has no cure, she wrote in her message.
Cholangiocarinoma is a bile duct cancer that typically occurs in people older than age 50. But it can also occur at any age, as the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota notes on its “Diseases & Conditions” webpage.
People are often diagnosed when the cancer has advanced, which makes treatment “difficult to achieve,” according to the organization.
“I really really do hope that in the years to come more research is done about this horrid, cruel disease so that more lives can be saved,” Thackray wrote.
“So with that being said, although we can’t control what happens to us, we can control how we react. I chose not to mourn the life I was losing despite being so devastated, but to instead enjoy every moment I had left.”
Source : https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/woman-announces-death-social-media-post-gone-viral-cherish-moment