"I noticed him getting weaker and weaker. There was one point where he was standing up in between the bars, and he walked with help with like two or three people," she says. "He used this as an opportunity to kind of address his mortality in a way that was less scary for other people and ultimately for himself"
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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