Meet the young woman who tweeted the last months of her life.

Her name was Amanda. And if her tweets hadn’t caught the attention of a woman in Canada, none of us would ever have heard of her. Amanda, like many of us, was a social media user. She didn’t have a lot of followers on Twitter, but she used the name @Trappedatmydesk and every few days she would update her account with a status relating to her life.

Her tweets weren’t necessarily groundbreaking or even noteworthy, but they were hers and they were a snapshot into her life.

In January 2013, Amanda started tweeting about doctors appointments and being scared.

OMW to the doctor to discuss the test results. Terrified.

— Amanda (@TrappedAtMyDesk) January 15, 2013

Three days later, after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she was deciding what to do with the rest of her life.

I just resigned from my #goc job. No point when I have 3mths to live, right? I wonder if I’ll get my pension money.

— Amanda (@TrappedAtMyDesk) January 21, 2013

But you look fine. has been said repeatedly. Just finished cleaning out my desk. — Amanda (@TrappedAtMyDesk) January 21, 2013

Amanda continued to update her account until April 11, 2013, when she sent her last tweets.

Don’t spend time being angry at people. Forgive them. Life is entirely too short. — Amanda (@TrappedAtMyDesk) April 10, 2013

 

Tomorrow, I go back into the hospital for the last time. Thank you all for the good vibes. Be good to each other. #quietlastnight — Amanda (@TrappedAtMyDesk) April 10, 2013

Then on April 16, her account was updated by her brother.

My dear little sister Amanda passed away from brain cancer late last night. -James

— Amanda (@TrappedAtMyDesk) April 15, 2013

After reading about what happened to Amanda, a woman she had never even met decided to make her tweets into a video dedication which is now going viral.

“When I originally made the video, it was because I kept thinking about Amanda after she died. I never met her, but her story stayed with me. I kept going back and reading her tweet stream, wishing I had reached out when she was alive. But I missed the chance. She was gone,” Shannon McKarney  wrote on her blog.

And the reason she did it? “Because it’s important. Because she can’t. And she deserved to have her story told, and I could do it, so I did it.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aaYXu_qzg0