Carol Saline contacted the obituaries desk of The New York Times. She was a reporter, and she said she had a scoop: her own death.
It was mid-June when she sent an email. She was 86, suffering from complications of acute myeloid leukemia. She would be entering hospice care. She would “probably be gone in three to four weeks.”
She would be available for an interview.
She had built a stellar career as a journalist and author: Two National Magazine awards as a senior writer at Philadelphia magazine. A collaboration with the photographer Sharon J. Wohlmuth on a trilogy of best-selling books in the 1990s about the love and complication of relationships — “Sisters,” “Mothers and Daughters” and “Best Friends.”
