Well that brought on the tears. At least she took some time to do the things she wanted to do. How does the song go? Live like you were dying? Yeah. Good for her. Rest in peace, Amanda.
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Imagine if this was fake.
"She had tried without luck to find members of Amanda’s family and let them know about the video but did not find anyone who knew Amanda personally, she said. (The Citizen wasn’t immediately able Wednesday afternoon to find people who knew the woman personally, either.)"
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/...105/story.html
Why can't she just DM the twitter account? Her brother posted on there so he obviously has access. If any of them exist. I call shenanigans.
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I don't know if it's fake or not, but the last paragraph of the article sums up people's fascination with MDS in a nutshell:
“It used to be that you would just find batches of letters in somebody’s attic, and you would read their history that way,” McKarney said.
“Now we leave these digital traces behind us everywhere we go — tweets and Facebook posts and blog posts — and it really stayed with me that some day that may be the only way that people can get to know you and the person that you were.”
I don't know if it's fake or not, but I cried. I can't imagine what I would do or how I would feel if I found out I had 3 mths to live.
Yeah, it struck me as a little strange. But kids today, you know. They do strange things. I suppose if she asked her brother to let her friends know? But there doesn't seem to be much interaction, but twitter is harder than fB or the late much lamented myspace.
https://twitter.com/search?q=trapped...yah&f=realtime
For the sake of all that is good in this world I prefer to think that this was real, and it was a touching tribute to this young lady. Even if it was faked, it makes you stop for a moment and think about the things you hope never to have to think about. Death is real, and for some the thought of not being here scares the shit out of them. She might have told her brother or left behind instructions in the event that she passed, the young people of today are savvy that way, sometimes. And as a twitter user myself, I'm a lot like her...I don't get on and post much. I can go a year or more without tweeting, some people can't go five minutes. As to why they would make that shit up...that's a question for another time. She died of the same type of cancer that killed a good friend's daughter at the age of 16, two years ago. I'm certain that no one in good conscience would halfheartedly post a fake death post like that. But that's just me.
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I find it too odd that she died in the 3 months. Usually the prognosis is off by a few months give or take.
I can't find her twitter profile picture anywhere.
But I also can't find any obituaries of an Amanda throughout the whole country of Canada and United States for April 14th, 2013.
Like I said, no one who had half a good heart would do some shit like that. And yeah, we've seen those human fails who fake cancer and turn all attention whore about it.
She had cancer of the brain. It's fast growing, and it is usually not detected until it is almost too late.
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I would be inclined to agree in most cases. I know this isn't worth much, but I am in her city and was quite active in the local Twitter meetup bullshit for a couple of years. We have a bunch of followers in common. I never met Amanda directly but people I knew and hung out with had and spoke about her passing IRL. So that lends the story a little cred to me, but hell, people have pulled elaborate hoaxes.
Since I do believe it is true, it is awful and tragic and I wish her family all the peace they can find. Tuesday 11:56pm
It is certainly awful and tragic when a young person, or any person, fall victim fing cancer. I'm torn between hoping this is a fake and hoping it's not. But in any case, I'm intrigued by Amanda and would like to know more about her. I've wondered what I would do if I got a dx like hers. Would I go on a wonderful journey (as she says she did) or would I just continue on as I always have, trying to pretend everything is OK? Or something else?
Not many people I know whether they are close with their siblings or not would think to go on an infrequently used social media account that was not theirs the day after their sibling died to announce it to the twitterverse. Not impossible, just a possible red flag, to me.
Yeah. If she'd been a frequent tweeter, one of those people who didn't let a day go by... or if this were her way of keeping people up to date ala "caring bridge" or something? Sure. It makes sense to have a family member update your social media, make sure you fB is open so people can leave condolences. Or even to let people know about services or memorial donations to her charities. But that's not what this was. So a bit hinkey.
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