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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:15 AM
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'Dying' couple blow £40k
A COUPLE who blew their £40,000 savings after being struck down by killer illnesses have been given the all-clear.

Patrick and Megan Hastelow listed 50 “must-dos” when he was diagnosed with serious heart problems soon after she got breast cancer.

Over 18 months they renewed their wedding vows on the QE2, partied in Rio, had a safari in South Africa and visited the Falklands, Senegal and Uruguay.

They splurged most of their life savings on the adventure.

But now Megan has been told her cancer is in remission, while Patrick, 66, is back at the gym after a successful heart bypass op.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004261378,00.html
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:28 AM
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1. Spending 40K may have saved their lives.
Many studies are showing positive attitudes exhibit a powerful influence over health and healing. Living their lives to the fullest may have triggered their healing.

So, rather than viewing this as a tragic, needless loss of their life savings, they should consider it the cost of saving their lives. Good trade, I'd guess.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:29 AM
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2. They will never regret this!
What the heck is money for? What good does it do to die with a fortune in the bank?
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:32 AM
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3. i intend to die broke (give it all away) & may my last check to the......
undertaker BOUNCE!...good for them!
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