Question by Zac: Books on living with a terminal illness?
I’m doing a project on how living with a terminal illness affects someones outlook on life. If you guys know any books,fiction or nonfiction please tell me thanks
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Answer by Aellia
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is centered around a group of teenagers with diseases, some of which are life-threatening. I don’t remember what it was called, but the FMC has something wrong with her lungs where they never work to her full capacity, they fill with fluid at times and she can drown that way. She has to carry around an oxygen tank and though the book has an open ending, I’m pretty sure she died. She also becomes close friends/falls in love with a boy who had a touch of (I think) bone cancer, but then became cancer-free after treatment. Towards the end of the books, though, it reappeared and had spread throughout his whole body, so you see how that changes him after being such a strong, admirable character until that point. One of the character also loses his eyes, you see how it changes him. I thought Green was pretty accurate with their reactions.
There’s also Jodi Picoult’s “My Sister’s Keeper”, in which one of the sisters is very sick and needs organ transplants for any hope of recovery- also a sad, sad movie. Hope this helped!
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