Photojournalist Margaret Moth has died of Cancer

Despite battling a terminal disease for the last three years of her life, Moth, who was born Margaret Wilson but changed her last name to Moth because she loved parachuting from planes, knew she had lived her life to the fullest. She said: “I don’t know anyone who’s enjoyed life more.”

New Zealand-born internationally renowned CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth has died of cancer at the age of 59.

Moth was born in Gisborne, New Zealand. She was born Margaret Wilson and reportedly changed her name because she loved parachuting from Tiger Moth airplanes.

She came up with consequent blood transfusion, but she struggled more than three years with colon cancer that causes to end her tremendous life journey.