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Catherine O’Hara<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0always had people laughing\u2014and she wanted to do the same when her time on Earth had come to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n More than a decade before the <\/span>Home Alone <\/span>actress <\/span>passed away at age 71 following a brief illness<\/span><\/a>, she revealed how she wanted to die, sharing the way she hoped to spend her final moments.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLaughing,\u201d the <\/span>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/span><\/a> star told <\/span>Vanity Fair<\/span><\/a> <\/span>in a questionnaire for their October 2013 issue. \u201cSurrounded by my old grandchildren, who are telling me to \u2018let go, already, Grandma!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Catherine\u2014who shares sons <\/span>Matthew Welch<\/strong>, 32, and <\/span>Luke Welch<\/strong>, 28, with husband <\/span>Bo Welch<\/strong> but wasn\u2019t known to have grandkids\u2014\u2014also wasn\u2019t opposed to the idea of reincarnation, joking, \u201cI\u2019ve got to believe God is into recycling. I\u2019d like to come back in the body of a much more evolved person who has lovely, thick hair and skin that tans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n It was that hilarious self-deprecation and joie de vivre that made Catherine so beloved by anyone who met her. So, it was no surprise that the world was completely heartbroken when news of her death broke on Jan. 30.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catherine O’Hara\u00a0always had people laughing\u2014and she wanted to do the same when her time on Earth had come to an end. More than a decade before the Home Alone actress passed away at age 71 following a brief illness, she revealed how she wanted to die, sharing the way she hoped to spend her final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Catherine-OHara-Dead-at-71-Life-Legacy-in-Pictures.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259380,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259379\/revisions\/2259380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}