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Topics: Cancer, Celebrity, News, Shannen Doherty
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Cancer, Celebrity, News, Shannen Doherty
Shannen Doherty shared specific instructions about her funeral and burial before her passing.
The 90210 star sadly died at the age of 53 on July 13, 2024, after her cancer returned in 2020.
She was first diagnosed with the condition in 2015 and had gone into remission two years later, but upon her cancer's return, it went on to metastasized to her brain and spread to her bones.
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Announcing Doherty's untimely death, the actor's publicist told People: "It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty.
"On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease."
Prior to her passing, Doherty spoke candidly about her illness and even voiced her plans for her funeral.
The Charmed star shared her desire of wanting her funeral to be a more intimate affair with the guest list being on the 'shorter' side.
"There's a lot of people that I think would show up that I don't want there," she said on her Let's Be Clear podcast at the start of the year.
"I don't want them there because their reasons for showing up aren't necessarily the best reasons, like, they don't really like me and, you know, they have their reasons and good for them, but they don't actually really like me enough to show up to my funeral."
"I want my funeral to be like a love fest," Doherty went on. "I don't want people to be crying or people to privately be like, 'Thank God that b**ch is dead now.'"
Elsewhere, the actor also revealed where she wanted her remains to go and insisted that she didn't want to be buried.
Doherty shared: "I want [my remains] to be mixed with my dog, and I want it to be mixed with my dad.
"I do not want to be buried and not cremated."
In the days running up to her death, Doherty shared a final heartbreaking social media post.
"For the first time in I have no idea how long I'm going to be on chemo for- I have no idea if it's going to be, you know, three months or if its going to be six months or if we are going, you know, if after three months if it's not working if we're going to change again," she revealed in a video that was shared to her Let's Be Clear podcast's Instagram page.
"I don't really, that's not something that I can predict. It's not something my doctors can predict and it's scary."
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