Jane “Nightbirde” Marczewski’s family posted one of the last videos that the America’s Got Talent star had taken before her death on Instagram on Tuesday February 22.
The video featured Nightbirde laying in bed and talking about how important it is to embrace feelings of sadness and loss shortly before her tragic passing at age 31 on February 20, following a battle with breast cancer.
In the clip, Nightbirde gave a touching talk about how important it is to allow yourself to feel sadness, and it doesn’t discount attempts to get better. “Just because you’re sad or grieving doesn’t mean that you’re not grateful, and it doesn’t mean that you’re not hopeful.
It doesn’t mean that you aren’t still fighting for your life, that you still don’t have it in you to keep going,” she said. “Sadness and grief and mourning and lamenting and crying and screaming and being angry, these are ways that we honor what was lost.” The AGT season 16 favorite encouraged her fans to face tough times head on, and fully embrace how difficult some of those can be. “I think grieving and feeling through all the emotions that you feel: the sadness and the grief and the injustice and the anger and the loss and the bargaining.
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