except for Cathy, who—as fated from the very first episode of The Big C—died from her terminal cancer in "The Finale," but met up with Marlene and Thomas the Dog in the afterlife and, we assume, lived happily ever after. Even Cathy's hapless husband and formerly dysfunctional son, based on our last sightings of them, seem destined to be okay in the wake of Cathy's death, which is all she ever wanted, even when her relationships with Paul and Adam were at their worst.