Sick lit and the romanticisation of terminal illness

A weirdly popular genre, for some reason. Let's talk about what's wrong with it. Spoiler warning for The Fault in Our Stars, A Walk to Remember, Five Feet Apart, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and basically everything in the genre since they all end the same way.

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