Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Amy Krouse Rosenthal a fifty-one-year-old author and filmmaker who died in March 13, 2017. Her death was caused by ovarian cancer. She told the public about her cancer by writing an essay in the New York Times. The essay was written in the form of a dating profile—but for her husband. Here is a small excerpt from what she wrote.
Want to hear a sick joke? A husband and wife walk into the emergency room in the late evening on Sept. 5, 2015. A few hours and tests later, the doctor clarifies that the unusual pain the wife is feeling on her right side isn’t the no-biggie appendicitis they suspected but rather ovarian cancer.
As the couple head home in the early morning of Sept. 6, somehow through the foggy shock of it all, they make the connection that today, the day they learned what had been festering, is also the day they would have officially kicked off their empty-nesting. The youngest of their three children had just left for college.

It’s good to see even in the shadows of death Mrs. Rosenthal still had a sense of humor.

Her story would spread like wild fire and those whose hearts it touched began to send emails and words

of love and sympathy. Her husband, Jason Rosenthal, has said that these emails were unexpected and overwhelming, but are appreciated greatly. In honor of her passing, Amy’s family has started the “AKR Yellow Umbrella Foundation,” established to give more books to children and also giving money to ovarian cancer research. If you’re interested in donating to the foundation, you can use the link below

https://akryellowumbrella.org/