she might not have wanted more money or fame. Another friend said that Hooks had decided to work only enough to keep her Screen Actors Guild health insurance. Death Hooks's doctor had advised her to stop drinking due to liver damage, but she did not try to quit. She was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2009, which was treated and went into remission that May. In April 2014, Hooks discovered a bump on her throat. She was given a biopsy and treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, but the tumor was unresponsive to chemotherapy and continued to grow. Doctors said the only remaining option was a total laryngectomy, which Hooks declined. She arranged for hospice care and used prescription drugs, wine, and cigarettes to manage her pain. She wrote in an email, "my dependence on wine and cigarettes increases. Oh the irony! The things that soothe you mentally and spiritually destroy you physically. It's so unfair." Her ability to speak, eat and breathe declined. On the evening of October 9, soon after watching Late Show with David Letterman with her brother Tom at her home in Woodstock, New York, Hooks collapsed walking back from the bathroom. Tom tried to lift her up to a wheelchair they had prepared for her, but she was completely unresponsive (to the point Tom joked she was "dead weight"), and Tom brought her a pillow and blanket to let her rest there; after a short wait, at 1AM, he checked on her and discovered her unresponsiveness had deteriorated to the point where she was not even breathing through her ventilator. Tom promptly called in the hospice care specialists, who, after failing to revive her, declared her dead shortly after 2AM, having succumbed to throat cancer at age 57. Her remains were interred in Northview Cemetery in Cedartown, Georgia. The Simpsons episode "Super Franchise Me" memorialized her on October 12, 2014, with her longtime character Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon honored in the credits. "Love Is a Dream" SNL paid tribute to Hooks in the third episode of its 40th season on October 11, 2014. Guest host Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig introduced a tribute in which SNL reaired a short she had filmed with Phil Hartman in 1988, "Love Is a Dream". This short film had also been reaired to honor Hartman following his death in 1998. It is described as "a sweet and melodramatic tribute to