How Alex Trebek Spent His Final Few Months Before His Death at 80: ....

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How Alex Trebek Spent His Final Few Months
Before His Death at 80:
'I've Been Getting Rid of Stuff'


Before his death on Nov. 8 from pancreatic cancer,
the Jeopardy! host was, like much of America, dealing
with the pandemic and cleaning up his house







Four months ago, while Alex Trebek was quarantining at home
with his family in Los Angeles, he was itching to get back to work
on the set of Jeopardy!

“My job gave me quality of life,” he told PEOPLE in July.
“It established a rhythm and order of things. I miss it very much.”

The longtime game show host, who was the face of Jeopardy! for
37 years, adored his job. He once told PEOPLE he had no plans to
retire. "Why would I retire?" he said. "If I did, my wife would
probably say I was home too much and getting on her nerves!"

Still, the forced time at home wasn't all that bad. Production on
his show shut down due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
almost exactly a year after he'd been diagnosed with stage four
pancreatic cancer in March 2019, so he was enjoying the extra time
at home with Jean, 56, his loving wife of 30 years, and his
children: Matthew, 29, Emily, 27, and Nicky, 54.

He’d also just released his first memoir, And the Answer Is...
Reflections on My Life. But he was a little bored. Because he’d
been undergoing various treatments, he was so immunocompromised
he couldn’t even leave the house or his property. So he did what
many others have done: cleaned up around the house.

“I’ve just been doing little projects around the house, getting rid
of stuff,” he told PEOPLE in July. “I have accumulated so much over
the past four decades, it’s difficult to decide what’s got to go. My
wife Jeannie has a great theory. She says if you haven’t used it in
a year, it’s got to go. Well, I have things I haven’t used in 40 years!
So I'm just tidying things up, if you will.” He added, "I just sent
away a whole bunch of old electronic equipment this morning to
a charity that recycles them, so that's good."

So did he find any treasures while digging through things? Not really.

"You think you've found a good treasure, and then you look it up
on eBay and it goes for $17.90," he said with a laugh.
"You say, 'Well, I can get rid of it now, I guess.' "

However, it didn't take a pandemic or personal illness to get Trebek
to enjoy working around the house. Before being diagnosed with
cancer, on his off days he could usually be found taking up some
sort of repair project at home, and his friends and family would
always comment on his love of tinkering.

"I work around the house," he told PEOPLE in 2018. "My latest project
is trying to repair a washer dryer in the guest house. The heat
will not come on. So I've taken it apart, and I've ordered a part
that I think might be the problem, but I don't know. If it isn't, then
I'm kind of shafted." He added with a laugh, "I will probably have
to call a repair man."

After his cancer diagnosis, he continued to take on small repair
projects to keep his mind off of his illness. "I just finished fixing
up my wife's bathroom," he said in July.




Alex Trebek and his wife Jean



On Nov. 8, eight days after hosting his final episode of Jeopardy!, which
will air on Dec. 25, Trebek died peacefully at home at age 80, surrounded
by his beloved family and a small gathering of friends.

In his final months, when he wasn't working around the house, taping
new episodes of Jeopardy! (the show resumed production in late July,
with new safety protocols in place) or resting, he spent as much time
as he could taking in the beauty of his Los Angeles backyard, sitting
on a swing with Jean, whom he referred to as "his soulmate."

Trebek wrote in his memoir about his hopes for his legacy. “I’d like to
be remembered first of all as a good and loving husband and father,
and also as a decent man who did his best to help people perform at
their best,” he wrote. “I’ll be perfectly content if that’s how my story ends:
sitting on the swing with the woman I love ...
my wonderful children nearby.”




























R.I.P. Mr Trebek ....
"And the answer is....

What is you will be forever missed"

[Charon]

[Mr. HIND]

My stepdad died from Pancreatic cancer as well.

Sometimes I wonder... Out of the 100 forms of cancer, there would be a cure for ONE by now... Guess there's too much money to be lost in the cancer treatment sector...