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Given months to live, a woman started raising money for her own funeral. She was stunned by the generous donations.

Within a week, Chalise Scholl more than doubled her fundraising goal with $27,000 in her GoFundMe account for her funeral arrangements.

"The other day a friend woke me up saying congrats," the Peoria woman said. "I didn't know what she was talking about until I looked online to see someone donated $5,000. Then it jumped to $8,000, then $12,000. I just

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