CNN's Kat Kinsman sat down with the author and her husband to talk about his cancer diagnosis. "Michael always said he was put on this planet to help a few people," she says. He died two and a half weeks after coming home from the hospital, where he had been treated for lung cancer.
Susan Messing and Michael McCarthy were a beloved couple in the Chicago comedy scene. Michael passed away from cancer in 2020. As part of Susan’s grieving process, she began to sift through the 50 or so boxes of his writing that he had left behind for her. What followed was a complicated grief.
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