Amy Krouse Rosenthal

An author dying of ovarian cancer has written a dating profile for her husband of 26 years so he can find "another love story".

Amy Krouse Rosenthal lists his best qualities and says she hopes "the right person reads this [and] finds Jason".

"I'm going to create a general profile for Jason right here, based on my experience of co-existing in the same house with him for, like, 9,490 days," she wrote in a piece on The New York Times. 

Rosenthal is known for writing books for children, as well as memoirs about her own family and life.

What follows in her piece for the paper is a list of the things Ms Rosenthal said she loves about her husband and why she believes he makes a good partner.

Rosenthal, 51, wrote that she's gone weeks without real food and falls asleep mid-sentence because of the morphine she needs. Despite feeling weak, she said she had to write the essay while she still could, because she wanted him to fall in love again after she is gone.

At the end of her piece, which is titled You May Want to Marry My Husband, she leaves an “intentional empty space” as “a way of giving you two the fresh start you deserve”.

"I am wrapping this up on Valentine's Day, and the most genuine, non-vase-oriented gift I can hope for is that the right person reads this, finds Jason, and another love story begins."