Here’s a really bizarre story for you. There is a woman in London named Lisa Connell. She’s 29 and found out three years ago that she has an inoperable brain tumor. What’s the one thing she wants to do before she dies? Have all sorts of plastic surgery so she looks like Demi Moore. And can die beautiful.

Demi Moore has urged a terminally ill fan not to have plastic surgery to look like her. The ‘Ghost’ actress doesn’t want 29-year-old Lisa Connell to go under the knife before she dies, insisting she is already beautiful. She wrote on social networking website Twitter: “Wish I could contact this woman Lisa Connell who wants to have surgery to look like me and encourage her to not to! She is a beautiful girl!”

Lisa has terminal cancer and had announced plans she was going to spend $60,000 on surgery in a bid to resemble her idol. Lisa decided to have liposuction, a breast enhancement, an eyebrow lift and work on her skin and teeth shortly after she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 2006.

She said: “People think I’m crazy for doing this, but I know it will make my last months or years happier… When I was young I used to watch Demi Moore in films like ‘Ghost’ and I longed to look like her… I want to die beautiful, so this is my way of taking back control of my body.”

[From Yahoo! Canada]

That’s all kinds of craziness. I don’t even know where to start, since I obviously don’t want to be harsh towards a woman dying of a brain tumor.

Connell used to run a website called “Lisa Connell Brain Tumour Fundraising Official Site.” Which sounds normal and sensible enough. But now when you go to the website, you get a message that it’s closed, and you’re redirected to Lisa’s new site, “Rent a Date for Charity.” It features minor British celebrities that are former reality TV contestant, WAGs (you know, that obnoxious British acronym for the Wives And Girlfriends of footballers), models, TV presenters, and a few models. None of whom I’ve ever heard of, though they’re obviously significantly more famous in the U.K.

The site runs periodic auctions where you can bid on a date with the celeb up for bid. Its goal “is to raise money and awareness for brain tumour charities but not exclusively.” Hmm. Here’s what Lisa says in her own bio on the site (and yes, you can bid on a date with her, too).

Lisa Connell 29 from North London. Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour two years ago has since made it her goal to raise over £1million for charity through Rent A Date For Charity.

Born in Camden Town 1979 moved to Bath to live with her dad and step mum in 1993 where she spent her teenage years moving back to North London in 1997. Working within property management for the best part of 10 years Lisa was very successful in her job. Moving to Thailand in 2005 having to come back 9 months later due to her illness Lisa now lives and works from her bungalow in North London.

[From Rent A Date for Charity]

There are pictures of Lisa on the site, and when Demi Moore Twittered that she’s a beautiful girl, she wasn’t bullshitting. Lisa really is gorgeous. She also already has a decent resemblance to Demi, which means she’s either already had some surgery, or perhaps she wants to enhance the similarity.

I would think having an inoperable brain tumor at such a young age would make a person really evaluate what they want out of the rest of their life. Actually… I guess in this case it did, and this is what Lisa wants. I was going to say it would likely lead a person to want to travel, or deepen their relationships, find religion… something. Going under the knife to change (I wouldn’t even say “improve”) your appearance seems an unusual choice. Especially for someone with limited time, who is already so beautiful.

Here’s Demi with husband Ashton Kutcher at the premiere of “Happy Tears” at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 11th. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.