[wanderfowl]

This makes me very sad, but I've also gotta highlight her skill at perfectly nailing the tone of that video. Humor, sadness, gratitude, and fear, in excellent measure.

Plus, I'm thrilled to see somebody else with a nice sense of gallows humor. Sometimes, we have to laugh so we don't have to cry.

[strictnein]

> Plus, I'm thrilled to see somebody else with a nice sense of gallows humor.

I was honesty expecting her to wheel out her robot arm holding a scalpel.

[stcredzero]

That is pretty heavy. One of my old band-mates has a benign brain tumor, though hers is inoperable. She lives with the specter of something someday changing with it, resulting in personality change or death. (So it is a silver lining that Simone's is operable, though the risk of bad outcomes still sucks.) Yes, gallows humor helps. Perhaps that's why my band-mate was partial to songs including death.

[astrodust]

If you can't laugh at something, it owns you.