Cancer hit him like a “cruel joke,” but actor Patrick Swayze, who died Monday, believed he still got the last laugh.

“I began thinking to myself, I’ve had more lifetimes than any 10 people put together, and it’s been an amazing ride,” he wrote in his soon-to-be released memoir, “The Time of My Life,” co-written with wife Lisa Niemi.

Patrick Swayze described his life as an “amazing ride” in his memoirs.

Earlier this year the Dirty Dancing star wrote The Time Of My Life with his wife Lisa Niemi, describing his battle against pancreatic cancer, which he lost this week.

According to People.com, he wrote: “I began thinking to myself, I’ve had more lifetimes than any 10 people put together, and it’s been an amazing ride.”

Women have understandably been queueing up to pay tribute to Patrick Swayze. “His light will shine for ever,” said Demi Moore. “He was a rare and beautiful combination,” said Dirty Dancing co-star PLANS Jennifer Grey.

In “The Time of My Life,” his posthumously published memoir, Patrick Swayze reveals how he first got the devastating news 20 months ago that he had pancreatic cancer. The actor, who died Monday at 57, co-wrote the book with his wife Lisa Niemi. Excerpts will appear in the new issue of People magazine, out tomorrow.

“I had been having some digestive trouble, mostly acid reflux and a kind of bloated feeling, for a few weeks,” Swayze writes in the book, which will be released Sept. 29. “I’ve had a sensitive stomach my whole life, so I hadn’t thought much of it, but lately I just couldn’t shake the constant discomfort.”

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