The terminally ill doctor who is 'deadly' serious about tweeting from her deathbed Dr Kate Granger hopes tweeting will help people to understand death Hashtag suggestions included '#deathbedlive' and '#onedieseveryminute' Dr Kate Granger plans to tweet until her last so that people can understand what the experience is like A doctor with terminal cancer plans to tweet from her deathbed so people can understand what the experience is like. Dr Kate Granger, 31, went through five rounds of chemotherapy after her diagnosis in July 2011 and was told she was unlikely to live longer than five years. But the sessions left her so ill she decided to stop receiving treatment and concentrate on enjoying a good quality of life with her family and friends. Last week, the elderly care specialist asked her 3,200 Twitter followers: 'Any suggestions for an appropriate # for me to use when eventually I am actively popping my clogs & live tweeting the experience?' Since her diagnosis, Dr Granger, from Wakefield, found that dark humour helped her and husband Chris Pointon to cope with their situation. Suggestions from her followers included: '#deathbedlive, #finalcountdown, #exfactor, #onedieseveryminute, #goinggoinggone' and '#toinfinityandbeyond'. Some asked her if she was serious about her tweeting plans, to which she said she was 'deadly' so. 'I thought it would be quite interesting for everyone to understand more about what the experience is like for me,' she told the Daily Telegraph. 'If my tweets about my death and what I'm going through make one person talk to their loved one about what they would do that's a good thing. 'Positivity and humour help me get through the day and deal with what I'm going through.' After her tweets, she published a blogpost entitled 'Dying - can it ever be a laughing matter?' She wrote: 'Don't get me wrong, I definitely wasn't making jokes on day one but soon after I started to use humour to help me get through the day. 'Some people around me were shocked by this attitude and language at first, but it's amazing how infectious it is and how it normalises this huge life event that is approaching for me.' Dr Granger, who returned to work at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield after treatment, has written a book about her illness, which was serialised in the Daily Mail last year. Kate Granger and her husband Chris Pointon pictured on their wedding day in 2005. The couple has found that black humour helps them cope with Dr Granger's illness In one extract from The Other Side, the proceeds of which go to the Yorkshire Cancer Centre, she said her illness had made her a better doctor. She wrote: 'It's made me realise how important the little things are - holding a patient's hand, sitting down with them and not standing over them, communicating news in a compassionate way and explaining the impact on them to their families.' She also wrote: 'I could descend into misery or enjoy the life that I have left, and I'm choosing the latter. I have that bucket list to work through, after all.