‘She wasn’t ready to leave’

Piro told PEOPLE: “We kept going until we couldn’t go any further. During the last conversation we had, she began to realize that things had taken a pretty significant turn. The conversation was about love and support and caring and still fighting on. She wanted to continue with the treatment and fight on, even though her physical condition had deteriorated somewhat. And we did that.”

Despite the “limited situation of options,” he explained, “The conversation was about, ‘What can we do within those constraints?’ as opposed to, “Let’s do nothing.” That wasn’t even up for discussion, because Shannen didn’t live that way. She was an incredible warrior in everything she did.”

“In her mind, she didn’t want to consider any other alternative than ‘we were covering this and we were dealing with life.’ We didn’t really talk about what that meant in terms of extra time for her because that just wasn’t how she operated. She wanted to live every day, not as if it were her last day, but as if this was the beginning of a whole new chapter for her.”

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