A Utah mother battling a rare terminal cancer planned her funeral after being diagnosed with three months to live. In her GoFundMe campaign, Erika Diarte-Carr, 30, revealed that she’s been struggling with Stage 4 small-cell lung carcinoma for the past two years, and doctors gave her a terminal diagnosis. After an 18 September oncologist appointment, she no longer planned on pursuing treatments as she was told that they would “no longer help.
” The doctors told her she had at most three months left. “3 months to spend with my babies and loved ones. 3 months to make the best of what time I have left,” she explained.
“During these next couple of months I need to make sure my kids will be ok after I am gone. I am faced now with the most difficult thing of planning my own funeral.” Her campaign goal was to raise $5,000 to cover the cost of her future funeral service, but to her shock, more than 30,000 donors have since helped her raise $900,000.
“It happened overnight. I never expected that,” she told ABC News . “I never expected to have a big funeral service, or a lot of people reach out and help me.
” She added, “With the way it’s went, I’m just in shock ...
just very grateful for everybody and everything that’s been there.” As of 29 September, the mother of two revealed that she planned on putting the majority of these donations in a trust fund for her two children: Jeremiah, 7, and Aaliyah, 5. In the campaign’s description, she called her childr.
