The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
American author and journalist Rosie Schaap was just 39-years old when her husband Frank died from a “very rare” form of oesophageal cancer. The couple had been told of Frank’s diagnosis only two years earlier.
“We spent the day together and watched the Winter Olympics... and then the following morning, I thought I’d go home to quickly feed our cats, shove some laundry in the machine and by the time I got back to the hospice, Frank was gone”. Mortgage-free in a cosy cottage before age 40: ‘I don’t have any savings, but I don’t have any debt either’
“I found an openness to talking about death and loss here in Ireland, that I hadn’t really found in New York. People didn’t seem as shy of talking about it, or at least looking me in the eye,” she says.
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