A UK woman diagnosed with terminal cancer wrote a list of 100 instructions for her two young boys and husband to read when she died.

Kate Greene, who died in January this year after a two-year battle with breast cancer, left a long list of things to do for her husband St John and sons Finn, 4 and Reef, 6, the Daily Mail reported.

Included in the list are instructions never to smoke, ride motorcycles or join the armed forces as well as more whimsical requests like to find four-leaf clovers.

Mr Greene was also instructed to find another wife and settle down again, as well as to teach the boys to respect women.

Mr Greene said that towards the end both he and his wife knew her time was up.

"One night she became really frightened she wouldn’t make it through the night, we stayed up chatting and at about 4am we drew up the wish list of things I had to do with the boys," he said.

"Before I knew it, there were over three sides of A4."

Mrs Greene's diagnosis wasn't the first time the family was forced to deal with cancer.

When Reef was just a baby, he was given a six percent chance of surviving a tumour in his abdomen.

Doctors told the family that Reef would likely never walk because of the damage the chemotherapy and surgery did to his leg nerves.

But despite this, the cancer went into remission and Reef made a full recovery.

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