{"id":2537,"date":"2011-06-13T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2011-06-13T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:16:55","slug":"whats-on-your-bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonflyeffect.com\/blog\/whats-on-your-bucket-list\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s on Your Bucket List?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alice<\/a>Alice Pyne is 15 years old and she is dying.<\/p>\n

As Salon details in a recent article<\/a>, “Alice Pyne is a typical 15-year-old British girl. She likes Cadbury’s chocolate, her friends and her dog. She also has terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Earlier this week she began a blog. ‘The cancer is now spreading through my body,’ she wrote. ‘It’s a pain because there’s so much stuff that I still want to do.’ And she wrote down what they were.”<\/p>\n

The first item on Alice’s bucket list<\/a>? “Make everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

TechCrunch’s Paul Carr may be cynical about the Internet community coming together in favor of a good cause<\/a>, but what’s amazing about Alice’s story is that she is just one girl with a blog and a Twitter account<\/a>, yet she was able to gather the attention of a massive number of people in just a few days. Alice’s sister has raised<\/a> over \u00a3<\/strong>30,000 for cancer research. Alice’s blog<\/a> has thousands of comments. With so many causes and people with cancer in the world, the question remains: why are people jumping to help Alice? What makes her different?<\/p>\n

I like the answer given by Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Wiliams: “There’s so much we can’t do. That’s why it feels amazing when someone gives us the chance to do something we can. To send a card. Bake a lasagna. Donate a pint of blood. Raise a little money for research. It’s not just because the sick need it, but because we all need it. In our most grief-laden moments, we search ferociously for meaning and purpose, and we cling to them for dear life.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Want to help? Check out 100k Cheeks<\/a> to learn more about how easy it is to become a bone marrow donor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice Pyne is 15 years old and she is dying. As Salon details in a recent article, “Alice Pyne is a typical 15-year-old British girl. She likes Cadbury’s chocolate, her friends and her dog. She also has terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Earlier this week she began a blog. ‘The cancer is now spreading through my body,’ … <\/p>\n

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