“I don’t want people to cry or to privately say, ‘Thank God that bitch is dead now,'” Doherty said on her podcast earlier this year.

Before her death, Shannen Doherty gave specific instructions regarding her funeral and burial arrangements.

The actress, who died on Saturday, July 13, at the age of 53, spoke about dying in an episode of her podcast. Let us be clearin January.

“I want (my remains) to be mixed with my dog’s, and I want them to be mixed with my father’s. I don’t want to be buried or cremated,” she said at the time, adding that her loved ones should spread her ashes in “a healthy mix” of ways.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 The former student then spoke about how her loved ones might scatter her and her father’s ashes in Malibu, California, where the couple had spent “precious time,” or another place they both loved.

She said she was also interested in the idea of ​​growing a tree from her remains.

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Doherty expected a rather “shorter” guest list for her funeral.

“I think there are a lot of people who would show up that I don’t want there,” she said. “I don’t want them there because their reasons for showing up aren’t necessarily the best. Like, they don’t really like me and, you know, they have their reasons and that’s fine, but they don’t really like me enough to come to my funeral.”

“(They’re going to show up) because it’s politically correct and they don’t want to look bad. So I want to take the pressure off them and I want my funeral to be like a love fest. I don’t want people to cry or to secretly say, ‘Thank God that bitch is dead now,'” Doherty added.

In another episode of Let us be clear in April, the Charmed A former student spoke about how she got rid of material possessions that did not bring her joy, in part to help her loved ones make the transition after her death.

“It feels like you’re giving up something that was very important and special to you,” she explained about clearing out a storage unit. “But you know it’s the right thing to do and that it will give you a sense of peace and calm because you’re helping the people you’re leaving behind have a cleaner, easier transition.”

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As a result, Doherty, who collected antique furniture, also reflected on her thoughts about which items she should get rid of.

“I don’t enjoy it and others don’t enjoy it, and do I really need it? Do I need three dining tables?” she asked herself. “The answer is no, none of us really need all the stuff we have and we could all do with a little slimming down to avoid becoming a hoarder, which is what I did with all my furniture.”

She then said that in her final years, she focused on creating memories with friends and family rather than material things.

“I don’t need that, it doesn’t really give me much joy, but what gives me great joy is taking my mother to the places she’s always wanted to see,” she said, adding: “I get to build other memories – I get to build memories with the people I love. I’m not dipping into the money that’s in my estate that makes sure everyone in my life is taken care of.”

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Doherty then reflected on a trip she took to Italy with her mother a few years ago to create those memories.

“(My mother) had tears streaming down her face because she never really thought she would ever experience this, and she certainly didn’t think she would experience this with me,” Doherty said. “Those are the things that matter most. Not what you own, not what you have.”

The Heather The star admitted that letting go of possessions gave her “freedom.”

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Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. In a November 2023 cover story in PEOPLE magazine, she revealed that the cancer had spread to her bones.

In the last episode of Let us be clear – released on Monday, July 8, before her death – Doherty told her friend and former co-star Holly Marie Combs that the main reason she continued working was to make sure her mother was financially secure after her death.

Doherty planned to accompany Combs on her friend’s journey. Charmed Check out the podcast again before she died.

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