The Last Text This Teen Sent Before Her Tragic Death Is So Beautiful

Laniece Moore was working to rebuild a school in Tanzania.

21 March, 2018
The Last Text This Teen Sent Before Her Tragic Death Is So Beautiful

​Laniece Moore, 15, drowned in a hotel pool last Friday while on a mission trip to Tanzania, where she was rebuilding a school. 

She was a student at Thurgood Marshall Academy in New York City. ABC 7 reports that her family is "taking comfort in the fact she died trying to change the world."

Her mother Felita Moore now finds special meaning the final message Laniece texted her that day. 

"The last thing she said to me was so beautiful," she told ABC 7. "Before she passed away she sent me something to let me know that the trip changed her. She told me, 'Mommy, there's so much other than New York. People in New York stress over materialistic things and there is so much more to life.'"

One of the classrooms that Laniece's mission group was helping rebuild has been dedicated in her memory.

Credit: Cosmopolitan
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