... bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, makes reference to Esther Earl when showing the isolation of serious illness, "we have a habit of imagining the dying as fundamentally other from the well. We hold them up as heroes and imagine that they have reserves of strength forbidden to the rest of us. We tell ... suffering – we will learn to be grateful for every day, or learn to be more empathetic, of whatever. These responses, while certainly well-intentioned, ultimately dehumanise the dying" So often, those with serious illnesses are isolated because of their conditions, as a soc...

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