Swayze's Biggest Regret: No Kids

In excerpts from upcoming book, Patrick Swayze writes of marriage, cancer battle

(NEWSER) - Dying was “okay” with Patrick Swayze, he wrote in his upcoming memoir. Though his cancer diagnosis at first seemed like a “cruel joke,” he “began thinking to myself, I've had more lifetimes than any 10 people put together, and it's been an amazing ride.” More excerpts from The Time of My Life published by the New York Daily News, Newsday, and Us:

• “I had been having some digestive trouble, mostly acid reflux and a kind of bloated feeling, for a few weeks,” he wrote of learning he was sick. “I've had a sensitive stomach my whole life, so I hadn't thought much of it, but lately I just couldn't shake the constant discomfort.”

(NEWSER) - Just one week since being released from the hospital after a bout with pneumonia, Patrick Swayze has announced he's writing a book, E! reports. The actor will collaborate on his memoirs with his wife of 33 years, Lisa. Even before his battle with pancreatic cancer, Swayze’s life was book-worthy, from his rise to heartthrob fame to his substance abuse problems. More»

Moment helped prompt pro-life stance, says ex-president in Lauer chat

(NEWSER) - When George W. Bush’s mother suffered a miscarriage, she showed her teenage son the fetus in a jar—an event that pushed him toward his pro-life stance, he tells Matt Lauer in an interview set to air tonight. “There's no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life,” Bush says of the experience, which he describes in his upcoming book (with her permission) “really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship," the New York Post reports. Click here for more revelations from the Lauer interview. More»

Lisa Niemi talks of their marriage, his last days

(NEWSER) - Nearly 7 months after Patrick Swayze’s death, “it’s not getting better” for widow Lisa Niemi, she says. She discusses her grief, her husband’s death, and their life together with the Times of London.

• Her emotions: “I have a myriad of feelings. Some are extreme, some are a general malaise, sometimes it’s like someone has poured gasoline on me and set me on fire.”
• His last days: “We told each other we loved each other over and over again. I never left the room without telling him. It still didn’t feel like enough.”

Lisa Niemi, Elizabeth Smart, Maria Shriver take part in Women's Conference

(NEWSER) - Just six weeks after losing her husband, Lisa Niemi spoke publicly for the first time about Patrick Swayze's death at yesterday's Women's Conference in California. "I am so grateful for what I had and my connection to him, and part of me believes that I will see him again," she said, "and I'm just going to have to go on until then." Niemi will also sit down with Oprah Winfrey on Friday. More from the conference: More»