A humorist faces life with Stage 4 lung cancer: 'The future disappeared for me'

In 2020, Annabelle Gurwitch went to urgent care for a COVID-19 test and learned she had cancer. She writes about life as a "cancer slacker" in her memoir, The End of My Life is Killing Me.


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