Sadly I remember seeing this one statistic where men are more likely to leave women when they have cancer (or breast cancer specifically).

Throughout history this type of behavior against diseases like with cancer has been evident. One of good example's of this would be AIDS's epidemic in 1980's where people effected with the disease where ostrasized and outcasted. Other people feared that they may catch the disease by simply being near the effected persons. Despite it not being the case. Because the majority of infected people happened to be LGBTQ+ huge amount of homophobia insued.

In addition to my previous annotation, one can interpret this as the authors goal is to through her work make people more comfortable with the idea of death. And accept death and illness as a natural part of life.

I assume it means to not invalidate the experiencess of people struggling with the illness. To not take her words as a simple metaphor but how the patients actually feel and experience.

My only thought about this behaviour could be because people believe what they hear/see from the media, random sites and not actual legitimate facts, scientific articles etc., that prove otherwise. They haven't taken the time to look at all the facts they are given to them and form an opinion of their own and prefer believing everyone else.

IT COMES WITH ANYTHING HUMANITY CANNOT DEAL WITH OR EXPLAIN

Τoday the equation has changed, cancer in specific parts of the body equals death.

a proof that illness is something that just happens regardless of social distinctions

Discrimination which later create the belief tha necessarily will be part in the kingdom of sick

Many times situations that we face like an illness lead us to a brighter side of life cause through the procedure we acquire wisdom and knowledge

intelligence does not change the way people react when learning that they suffer from a lethal disease, both of these patients can feel fear and can understand their situation if educated accordingly by doctors. I believe that by refusing to speak about taboo topics in general, only reinforces the stigma

Similarly, this prejudice also affects people who suffer from mental disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia, or addictions to substances, and are frowned upon by modern societies. As a result, many of them avoid acknowledging their symptoms, in fear of being stigmatised.

Possibly due to lack of education, or misinformation about illnesses like cancer, people tend to rely on their instinctive fear of something that they cannot control

here we can see that even though medicine has advanced since TB, and continues advancing in a rapid pace, humanity has to face new challenges and evolve

illnesses in some way connect us humans with one another around the world, reminding us that we are all equally vulnerable when it comes to life and death situations