Couple Goes Broke After Incorrect Cancer Diagnosis Leads to $80K Bucket List Spending Spree

If you were diagnosed with a terminal disease, it may be your first instinct to start checking things off your bucket list. Such was the case for a New Zealand man diagnosed with cancer that was expected to kill him within a couple months. The man and his wife gave away many of their worldly possessions, sold their home and began doing really whatever they wanted.

Nearly two years later, Frank, 69, was told he actually didn’t have cancer. At this point, he and his wife, Wilma, were $80,000 in the hole.

The New Zealand Herald reports Frank and Wilma after his initial diagnosis in May 2010 with a deadly form of cancer in his heart tissue sold or gave away much of what they owned, including Frank’s handyman company. They began taking extravagant trips and even started a separate business, which eventually fell under.

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