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Jeannine Mancini

22-Year-Old With Terminal Cancer Spends Final Days Maxing Out Credit Cards Buying Gifts and Crab Dinners — 'The Debt Will Die With Me'

Legal Advocates Demand Accountability

When you're 22 and doctors tell you there's no more treatment left, priorities flip. For one young woman with terminal bone cancer, that meant skipping financial caution and leaning into crab dinners, keepsake gifts, and donations — all on credit she knows she'll never repay.

"I've probably got weeks, maybe a couple months at best," she wrote on Reddit's Confession forum. "So I took out a credit card… and am now buying whatever I want. The debt will die with me, and I give no [cares]." She headed off critics directly: "And if you want to beef me about driving your bank fees up with this behaviour, at least you get to live. Lol"

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