Author Jenny Diski has died. She has spent the last two years writing about her experience with terminal lung cancer.
Her reaction to the news was to joke about setting up a meth lab, referencing Breaking Bad. “So, when my Onc Doc announced that I had cancer, inoperable cancer, and that there was no cure, but some lengthy and famously unpleasant treatment that might get in the way of its speedy (the word ‘aggressive’ comes to mind but wasn’t actually said) progress, I chose the threadbare joke, from the already ready possible options. Because I had to choose something,” she wrote.
Her partner Ian Patterson tweeted the sad news yesterday.
Sad news. My darling Jenny @diski died early this morning.
— Ian Patterson (@paftersnu) April 28, 2016
The author of 18 books, Diski’s memoir, In Gratitude, came out last week. (Via The Guardian).