John Green, 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. ... These responses, while certainly well-intentioned, ultimately dehumanise the dying" So often, those with serious illnesses are isolated because of their conditions, as a society we place them on a pedestal as heroes to serve us as inspiration. ... Hazel has one and used it as a child before she was "diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen.... &qu...

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