The friends and family of a woman who died in July following a brain tumour diagnosis earlier this year have raised £50,000.
and began travelling when she was 20. She spent time in Australia and then moved on to New Zealand, where she met James, from Aukland in 2016. The couple got engaged in 2019 and moved back to the UK, living in London.Go Fund Me page
“And Charlotte was adamant that any money donated would be used for research and treatments for all cancers, not just brain tumours which are relatively rare, she wanted the money to help as many people as possible. “Charlotte got diagnosed on April 5th, it was a Tuesday, in the space of a day she suddenly started feeling really dizzy and seeing lights and then tripping over and she had this numbness all the way down one side of her body and she couldn’t walk.”
“From there Charlotte didn’t want to continue with the treatment as it was just prolonging life in a way that was incompatible with her values and way of living and enjoying life. When they did the biopsy, they said the tumour would have probably been growing slowly for years.”Charlotte organised her own funeral and said goodbye to loved ones before passing away three weeks later, on July 7, at the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead near hers and James’s home.
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