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A Texas family has created a 'bucket list' for their infant daughter after learning she suffers from a fatal genetic disorder, myFOXhouston reported. Mike and Laura Canahuati, from Bellaire, Tex, are on a mission to teach the world about their daughter Avery's fatal genetic disease. You've likely never heard of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, but 7.5 million Americans carry the gene that causes it.

I know of three people I know well that have died or will soon die of cancer. This put my faith and my bucket list in mind. I have many places I want to visit before I die but if I am like my friends and I get a 1 year to live acclaim I can see by them....I won't be healthy to enjoy... An Alaskan Cruise...Inspired by visiting the CPAC page and watching Palin's show. So I looked into Alaskan Cruises What is your bucket list anybody ever been on an Alaskan cruise? leave Vancouver or Seattle?

I posted this a year or 2 ago, and it had a pretty good response - what are your goals before you die? (Leave having a woman of every different race out, because who doesn't?). I'm always interested to see what other people want to do, because I will think, hey - that could be fun! So.... Mine are (in no order) Learn fluent Spanish. Visit Machu Picchu. Visit Russia. Skydive. Buy a Porsche. Finally learn the guitar. Have a farm. Be self employed. See the Pyramids.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.- A Missouri teenager said he took his 90-year-old great-grandmother to his school prom to help her fulfill a lifelong wish. Hasselteen Rumba, 90, said she was encouraged to make a bucket list of new experiences she wanted to try by Independence Care Center Manor activities director Tracy Bunch, who was inspired by the movie "The Bucket List," WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Mo., reported Monday. Great-grandson Ron Blalock said he decided to help Rumba after learning that attending a dance was on her list. "She never went to a prom and I figured I'm having a prom so she...

ISLE OF PALMS — Pauline Sherman's doctor said that at 96 years old, she would have to find something to die from because he couldn't find anything wrong with her. So she decided to go parasailing. "I was with my grandchildren, and we were watching people do it at the beach," said Sherman, who will turn 97 next month. "I said that looked like fun and I might like to try it." That's when Regina Ford of Mount Pleasant, Sherman's granddaughter, put the wheels in motion for what turned out to be the ride of a lifetime Monday afternoon.

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film. After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying...