A Suffolk widow will throw herself out of a plane while carrying her husband’s ashes to hounour her brother, who is battling a terminal brain tumour.
Lindsay Charlson, from Hessett, will complete a tandem skydive from 10,000ft at Beccles Airfield this weekend as a part of the Brain Tumour Research charity’s Jump for Hope.
The wife and mother-of-one will take some of her late husband's ashes with her.
She said: "Skydiving has been on my bucket list for years, so I’m both excited and nervous.
"I used to talk to Edward about it and know he would be all for me doing it. He wouldn’t have wanted to do one himself, but I’ve decided to take a little bit of him up with me anyway."
The 47-year-old’s motivation comes from her younger brother Jamie Marsden, who is receiving palliative care for a terminal brain tumour.
The father-of-three, who is only 42 years old, has been told his condition is terminal and there are no further treatment options available for him.
Mrs Charlson said: "I didn’t know brain tumours existed until my brother fell ill with one.
"It’s too late to save his life, but I want to do what I can to help advance research and give others more time, so they don’t have to suffer like we are.
"Every time I see Jamie, it just breaks my heart. I can’t imagine what he’s going through.
"Until you’re in the thick of this disease, you don’t realise how debilitating it is or how it takes over the life, not just of the patient but of everyone around them.
"The more I can raise to help find a cure, the better. I just feel so bad for everybody going through this."
Mrs Charlson added that her husband "loved her brother to bits," and she knows that he is watching over their family.
"I’ll be thinking of him and my brother when I’m up there."
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