Which sucks more?

Which sucks more?

by A Person | Published on November 28th, 2009, 12:00 pm | Life

Being told you have only months to live?

or

After blowing all your savings finding out that you're going to be fine?

A breast cancer sufferer who thought she was going to die lavished £50,000 on her family - only to be given the all-clear.
Suzie Grogan vowed to live each day like it was her last after she was diagnosed with the devastating condition in August 2006.
The 47-year-old decided to organise as many things to benefit her family as possible.
In just 12 months they spent £10,850 on holidays, £15,000 on home improvements, the same on new cars and £3,300 on Christmas.
She and husband Peter even splashed out £1,500 re-newing their wedding vows.
The Grogan family splashed out £44,150, plus petrol and other costs, taking the total to almost £50,000.
But now charity worker Suzie, project worker Peter, 48, and their children James, 18, and 15-year-old Elspeth face having to re-pay the huge debt.

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The spending spree started innocently enough with a trip to Devon in April for a writing course for Suzie, costing a reasonable £400.

A writing course? She thought she was gonna die, so why spend on a writing course if you're not gonna be around to write?

'Cancer shocks everything, all the things you take for granted are shook to the core, the disease makes you completely question your future.'

She somehow determined she would be another person who "lost her battle with cancer." I can understand wanting to "cheer up" her family, but overspending to do so? :doh:

I wonder if any of the family members thanked her and said that it wouldn't make up for her absence after she died.

I recently received news that a friend has a brain tumor. His wife described it as aggressive and the same type that Ted Kennedy had and is starting a new treatment next week. They are now taking trips to do and see things that they have put off; HOWEVER they are not spending beyond their means. Who wants to die and leave a family with ridiculous debt?

Good for her. Surely the Czech has bankruptcy, no? She probably did more living in that short time than she will ever do again... but good for her.

I would say months to live.

Moneys money, you can always make more of it.

When you die you can't buy your life back.

Life is not equal to money...

That's why we need to think about eternity.

It's important!

ecofox wrote:I would say months to live.

Moneys money, you can always make more of it.

When you die you can't buy your life back.

Life is not equal to money...

That's why we need to think about eternity.

It's important!

Yup.