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I kind of owe my career to an obituary. I'm actually an award-winning obituary

which is something that I don't know if they have obituary

awards, but I won an award for writing an obituary, and guess what? It's not really my award.

I had a co-author and that co-author was my husband because

we wrote his obituary together before he died, which is kind of strange. Usually people do wait

until somebody's dead before they write their obituary but my husband was 35

he had just entered hospice we were laying in bed we were watching game of Thrones he said I can't believe I'm not going to know how this show ends. And you know what? I'm glad.

One small mercy to him dying in 2014 is he didn't have to see the end of Game of Thrones.

Okay, he got to die when that show was kind of at its best and he didn't have to see,

you know, you know what he didn't have to see. You know, I know, that show just kind

of just like right at the end. And I'd say it to their face. I'd say it to their face.

And this is me saying it to their face they're obviously watching

this.

Anyways, Aaron and I wrote his obituary together because I did not want to do it alone and because he was

such a specific person and I wanted him to decide what was important

and how he wanted to be remembered. And he wanted to be remembered as himself,

not as this sad story.

Oh, I'm 35, I died of brain cancer.

Everyone's gonna miss me.

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