Teen Who Planned His Own Funeral Makes Unprecedented Recovery, Creates Charity

Sometimes, a terminal medical diagnosis allows for a few extraordinary opportunities -- like meeting celebrities, driving in fast cars and planning for your ashes to be shot out of a cannon.

While Deryn Blackwell did check those first two items off his bucket list, the last one, thankfully, has not come to fruition. Instead, Deryn shocked the medical community by fighting back against the odds.

The 14-year-old from Watton, England, was diagnosed with both leukemia and Langerhans cell sarcoma, an extremely rare cancer, according to his website. In December, doctors told him that he had three days to live, and Deryn went to an end-of-life hospice, according to BBC News.

"We had accepted it. We'd all accepted it," Deryn’s mother, Callie Blackwell, told BBC of her son’s diagnosis.