Earlier this week, Heather McManamy, a badass wife and mother, died of breast cancer. At her request, her husband Jeff shared a final letter she wrote to friends and family. The letter is full of humor and profanity, reminding everyone that Heather was definitely the kind of person you wanted to have in your life. Her final words have received thousands of shares on Facebook and they’ll probably make you laugh/ ugly cry.

She opens with the bad news, but quickly moves on to the more positive angle:

So…I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is, apparently, I’m dead. Good news, if you’re reading this, is that you are most definitely not (unless they have wifi in the afterlife). Yes, this sucks. It sucks beyond words, but I’m just so damn glad I lived a life so full of love, joy and amazing friends. I am lucky to honestly say that I have zero regrets and I spent every ounce of energy I had living life to the fullest. I love you all and thank you for this awesome life.

She offered a fresh perspective on how to comfort her daughter:

Please, please, please do not tell Brianna that I am in heaven. In her mind, that means that I chose to be somewhere else and left her. In reality, I did everything I could to be here with her, as there is nowhere, NOWHERE, I would rather be than with her and Jeff. Please don’t confuse her and let her think for one second that is not true. Because, I am not in heaven. I’m here. But no longer in the crappy body that turned against me. My energy, my love, my laughter, those incredible memories, it’s all here with you…Please tell Brianna stories, so she knows how much I love her and how proud of her I will always be (and make me sound waaay cooler than I am).

And she reminded everyone that cancer is, in fact, the loser:

And don’t say I lost to cancer. Because cancer may have taken almost everything from me, but it never took my love or my hope or my joy. It wasn’t a “battle” it was just life, which is often brutally random and unfair, and that’s simply how it goes sometimes. I didn’t lose, dammit. The way I lived for years with cancer is something I consider a pretty big victory.

And finally, she told everyone to turn up in her honor:

If you go to my funeral, please run up a bar tab that would make me proud. Heck, blast “Keg on My Coffin” and dance on the bar for me (because there had better be a dance party at some point). Celebrate the beauty of life with a kickass party because you know that’s what I want and I believe that in a weird way, I will find a way to be there too (you know how much I hate missing out on fun). I look forward to haunting each one of you, so this isn’t so much a goodbye as it is see you later.

Check out the entire hilarious and heartbreaking letter below:

Heather will be sorely missed. Her friends and family were lucky to have her.

We might be crying a little bit.  A lot.

“16 & Pregnant” star Nikkole Paulun is showing the world how much of a little gentleman her 6-year-old son Lyle is. According to a recent Facebook post, he regularly takes her out to dinner and pays out of his allowance.

Nikkole says that Lyle takes her out at least once a month for a mother-son dinner date.

“He opens doors for me, pulls out my chair, talks about his day and asks how mine was, pays the bill with money he earned by doing chores, and even tips the waiter/waitress,” wrote Nikkole.

“He learns the value of money and how to manage it. He learns how to do math as we add up what we want and make sure we have 15% of it to leave a tip.”

Nikkole briefly references troubled past relationships as a reason for encouraging Lyle’s behaviour: “It’s never too early to teach your child how to properly respect others, especially women.”

Lyle, if you ever want to take us out for some lunch we’re free, er, pretty much always.

PHOENIX (KSAZ) – A random act of kindness was extended to a Phoenix family that nearly missed their flight to Tennessee — which would have meant missing their father’s funeral.

The pilot of the plane made an unprecedented decision after the plane had already pulled away from the gate.

It’s practically unheard of for a pilot of a plane that’s filled with passengers to throw the jet into reverse and go back to the gate to let a few stragglers on board, but that’s what a Delta Airlines pilot did for the family.  They had less than 10 minutes to catch the connecting flight and they were almost left behind.

“I was just crying.. I couldn’t believe we were going to miss that flight and we are very, very thankful for those pilots,” said Nicole Wibel.

The Short family had the worst luck on their flight from Phoenix to Tennessee. They were on their way to bury their father, who lost his battle to cancer.  They faced 90 minute delay taking off from Sky Harbor Airport, which meant they had less than 10 minutes to catch their connecting flight in Minneapolis, which was the last flight out to Memphis that day.  Their father’s funeral was the following morning.

“It would’ve been sad not saying goodbye,” said Wibel.  “It would’ve been a hard thing to deal with.”

By the time the family got to the gate at the Minneapolis Airport, the jetway was pulling back and the plane was beginning to taxi toward the runway. Airline workers delivered the news.

“The lady got on the phone and said there was nothing they could do, that the tower wasn’t going to let them pull back in and my sisters and mom.. sitting there in tears and I’m screaming through the glass.. all of a sudden, another phone call,” said Rick Short.

He was screaming, crying and waving his hands in the window, trying to get the pilot’s attention — and he did.

The pilot tells FOX 10 he didn’t need words. He saw the tears, the sadness, the desperation on their faces and when he was told the family was on their way to their father’s funeral, the pilot did something unprecedented. He went back to let them on the plane.

“It’s very rare.. someone stops and does something so kind and we need more people like that in the world,” said Short.

An airline worker told the family it was solely the pilot’s decision to come back for them.

The family made it to Tennessee in time to lay their father to rest in his hometown, which was one of his last wishes.

WE NEED MORE “HEROES” LIKE HIM!