“Beautiful Day, Happy To Have Been Here.” Woman’s Obituary Goes Viral After Losing Her Battle With Cancer

Jane Catherine Lotter lost her battle to endometrial cancer on the 18^th of July. 

The 60-year-old was a Seattle based journalist, editor and author, who had a humourous weekly column titled 'Jane Explains,' in the Seattle Times and recently published, The Bette Davis Club, a comic novel.

Jane however will undoubtedly be remembered for her very lasts words. The obituary she penned, one of the “few advantages” of dying from cancer.

“One of the few advantages of dying from Grade 3, Stage IIIC endometrial cancer, recurrent and metastasized to the liver and abdomen, is that you have time to write your own obituary. (The other advantages are no longer bothering with sunscreen and no longer worrying about your cholesterol),” she wrote.

The witty piece detailing what she believed were the great successes in her life was published in the Seattle Times, which then unsurprisingly went viral on Twitter.

Husband Bob Marts, and children Tessa, 23 and Riley, 19, survive Jane. The writer explained that the day she met her husband was the “luckiest night of my life.”

And continues by telling her children to remember that “obstacles in the path are not obstacles, they ARE the path.“ 

“I was given the gift of life, and now I have to give it back. This is hard. But I was a lucky woman, who led a lucky existence, and for this I am grateful. “

The piece ends "Beautiful day, happy to have been here.”

 

Jane’s full obituary can be read here.