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Keeping the dreams going requires a lot of corporate-sponsorship pitches, auction galas and creative fund-raising tactics. Making Memories, for instance, has sold nearly 10,000 wedding dresses donated from manufacturers, designers, bridal shops and brides themselves during its Brides Against Breast Cancer sales in dozens of U.S. cities annually...
Siebert, who died in July from breast cancer, had her last wish in life--that breezy convertible ride--granted by Dream Foundation. The nonprofit group headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., grants wishes to adults nationwide who have 12 months or less to live. Mir, a volunteer, understands what it means to have a dream fulfilled. The foundation gave her son Marcel a birthday bash with friends in formal gowns and dressy suits before he succumbed at age 23 to cancer in 2001. "He came alive for his birthday. He was so happy," Mir recalls...
Although rare, a few other national groups share similar missions. There's the Fairygodmother Foundation, based in Chicago, which will use its magic to conjure the last wishes of about 130 adults across the country this year. Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation grants wishes to recipients with Stage 4 breast cancer; a doctor must confirm the recipient likely has only a year left...
Many dreamers ask for family trips so their loved ones can remember happy times together. Dee Appel, 61, had worked with Making Memories in Portland, Ore., for two years when she learned her breast cancer had returned and spread to her liver. During a local TV appearance in which Appel planned to promote a fund raiser, her colleagues surprised her by awarding her wish for a "grammy camp" in Colorado with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Appel invited the kids' other grandmother, who had lung cancer, to come along. The grandkids and their two grandmas--both "bald...
...glimmer of Candice as she used to be. "We snorkeled, we hiked up a god-awful hill to a lighthouse, we took ballroom-dancing lessons, we went to the casinos. Candice knew everybody on the ship," says Irvine. A mechanic in the Air Force, Candice died of breast cancer three weeks later...