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"When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything. Images come in flashes — people and places and stray conversations — and refuse to stop." This is how Tatiana Schlossberg begins an essay she penned for The New Yorker — "A Battle with My Blood" — that lets the world know she doesn't have much time left to live. At just 34 years old, the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis shared her terminal cancer diagnosis.

But it's crucial that everyone knows that Schlossberg is far more than a patient facing a poor prognosis. Born into a family often described as American royalty, she could have easily chosen to live a life that relies solely on her clan's name and legac

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