4 Matching Annotations
  1. Sep 2022
    1. eopardizes one's love life

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

    2. if not literally, contagious.

      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.

    3. metaphoric thinking.

      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.

    4. metaphoric thinking

      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.