Friday, June 10th 2011, 11:52 AM
When 15-year-old terminal cancer patient Alice Pyne created a bucket list, the British teen expected to share it with only her friends and family.
But days after posting the list to her blog, the girl from Ulverston, England, has captivated the attention of people around the globe.
Pyne, who has been fighting cancer for four years, created buzz with her heartwarming list of last wishes: swimming with sharks, going to Kenya and perhaps most importantly, making everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor.
She began the blog - alicepyne.blogspot.com - after a scan came back to show that the cancer had spread throughout her body
"Mum always tells me that life is what we make of it and so I'm going to make the best of what I have because there are so many things I still wanted to do," she wrote. "Mum suggested that I turn my ideas into a bucket list."
Much to Alice's surprise, the list went viral, thanks to the help of people on Twitter who retweeted her hashtag #alicesbucketlist enough to make it a trending topic on the social networking site.
Since the blog was posted on June 6, Alice has received more than 7,000 comments and well-wishes - and money for cancer research.
She's directing donations to Race for Life, a British race benefitting cancer research.
"OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW it's the middle of the night and we just hit £10,000 for CANCER RESEARCH by you sponsoring my little sister for her run this weekend," she wrote on Friday. "We can't go to bed because we're hooked on reading all the messages. I feel so good that with your help we are getting more people on the bone marrow donor list AND now we're putting money into supporting cancer research. Happy happy happy :)"
She also is already fulfilling one item on her bucket list: seeing Take That, a British pop group.
"I am so excited and really can't wait, I just hope that I don't get ill or something daft," she wrote.
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