Woman Announces Own Death on Instagram in Touching Post: ‘I Knew How Deeply I Was Loved’

Casey McIntyre wrote her obituary after being diagnosed with stage-four ovarian cancer

A woman who was diagnosed with stage-four ovarian cancer announced her own death this week.

“A note to my friends: if you’re reading this it means I have passed away. I’m so sorry, it’s horses--- and we both know it," Casey Ryan McIntyre wrote in a pre-planned obituary published on Instagram Monday, the day after her death.

The cover photo of the carousel was a group picture of McIntyre, her husband Andrew Rose Gregory, and their daughter Grace Valentine smiling.

“I loved each and every one of you with my whole heart and I promise you, I knew how deeply I was loved,” the 38-year-old vice president and publisher at Penguin Random House's Razorbill added.

Gregory later updated the post, noting that McIntyre "meant to finish this post with a list of things that were a comfort & a joy to her during her life, and I am heartbroken that I will never see that list. As she grew sicker she couldn’t finish it."

Related: Woman, 24, Told to Lose Weight by Doctors Who Dismissed Her Pain — but She Had Ovarian Cancer

McIntyre died at her home in New York on Nov. 12, according to a tweet posted on X by Gregory on Wednesday.

The Manhattan native and Tenafly, New Jersey transplant was a known bibliophile, who “saw herself in every child sprawled out on a couch, rug, or bunk bed engrossed in their latest book obsession," according to the obituary her husband published.

As a kid, when McIntyre wasn’t nestled away reading, she could be found at YMCA Camp Fuller in Rhode Island, swimming, sailing and gossiping. During college in Decatur, Georgia, she studied music and creative writing.

“Until her end,” McIntyre’s happy place was always the water, preferably lounging in the pool with a book.

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

According to her obituary, early in her career, she interviewed at Penguin Random House on a particularly rainy day. However, she didn’t let a little bit of bad weather interfere with her dreams.

“Soaked to the bone from a rainstorm,” she “left as a publicist's assistant.”

As her career progressed, she “was incredibly proud to have supported a series of remarkable authors throughout her career as a publicist at Penguin Young Readers Group, a publicist at Harper Collins, and as Publisher at Razorbill including Katherine Applegate, The Tiny Chef, Brian Jacques, Akilah Hughes,” and more.

Publisher’s Weekly recognized McIntyre as a 2015 PW Star Watch Honoree.

Gregory thanked the “top-notch medical” providers who allowed her loved ones to have “four more years with Casey.”

To keep her legacy alive, as well as to help others, her family will pay off medical bills to people in need.

“We will celebrate her life by anonymously purchasing medical debt and then anonymously forgiving it, hopefully with a bonfire if they will let us,” Gregory said. “Through the charity RIP Medical Debt, we are buying others' medical debt and destroying it. Every penny buys approximately $1, which is an eye-opening look at both our power to eliminate medical debt and how fictional and made up so much crushing medical debt is.”

For more People news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter!

Read the original article on People.