Shannen Doherty is battling stage 4 breast cancer, but she's not letting that dictate how she lives her life, hence why she bristles at the notion of a "bucket list."
"I never want to operate [like I'm dying]," she said on "Good Morning America" on Oct. 4. "I like to think of them as goals, because a bucket almost feels like those things you check off before you die. I just want to operate as I don't have things to check off because I'm going to keep fighting to stay alive."

The "Beverly Hills, 90210" star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015, but two years later she happily announced that she was in remission. However, in February 2020, the actress revealed that she'd been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Still, Shannen has tried to stay busy with work and family time.
"I'm living life. I'm spending a lot of time with friends and family and working," Shannen, who has two Lifetime movies debuting this month, said. "I think work was always fulfilling to me, but in a way it's become even more fulfilling."
"A lot of people who get diagnosed with stage 4, they sort of get written off," she continued. "It's assumed that they cannot work or they can't work at their full capacity, and that is not true. That is something that I would really like people to stop assuming, and give us a chance to prove them wrong."

The "Charmed" alum, by and large, is doing well, as she's on her "first protocol," which the National Cancer Institute defines as a "detailed plan of a scientific or medical experiment, treatment, or procedure."
"It's kind of like you just want to last on your protocols as long as possible so that you don't run out of protocols," Shannen said.