Overview
- Cheryl Strayed said Friday on Instagram that her husband, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, died at 65 from progressive supranuclear palsy.
- She wrote that she and their children, Bobbi and Carver, were with him as he took his last breath.
- Strayed had disclosed his "serious, fatal" diagnosis earlier this month and canceled planned appearances to focus on her family.
- Lindstrom’s documentaries focused on people on the margins, with credits including Alien Boy and Lost Angel, and his work on Mothering Inside helped restore Oregon funding for a program serving incarcerated mothers.
- Progressive supranuclear palsy is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that harms brain cells controlling movement and thinking and often gets worse quickly.