A 40-year-old Utah Jazz executive who died of a rare form cancer posted an inspiring final message on Friday, imploring readers to view each day as a "license to live" rather than merely passing time.

Caroline Klein, the NBA team's chief communications officer of three years, recalled her her August 2023 diagnosis hitting her like a truck. The aggressive soft tissue cancer later spread to her lungs, leaving her with few treatment options as she battled stage 4 proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma.

"But, being the pragmatist I am, my attitude from the start was, 'it's what it is,' and instead of wasting any time obsessing about how not to die, I spent my cancer journey focusing on how to live the fullest life as much as I could control," Klein wrote on LinkedIn . "And boy, did I live."

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