Just as a suicide bomber chooses to end his/her own life in the pursuit of some moral victory, cancer dies alongside its victim because it literally can not kill its host and continue to live without his/her life force. Alas, cancer’s very existence destines it to either die with Augustus or die at the hands of the treatments meant to eradicate it, and at this point the disease has already crossed the point of no return; Augustus is soon going to die, and the malady will meet its demise alongside him. Within a few short months this comes to pass, and although cancer is also now dead in the case of Augustus Waters, the murderous villain continues to live on in the body of Hazel, victorious in the fact that it has successfully robbed yet another victim of his life. And finally, as the novel’s story comes to an end, it is implied that cancer will succeed once again (though nobody knows when) by killing Hazel herself, leaving cancer to become a villain victorious over the protagonists of the
Just as a suicide bomber chooses to end his/her own life in the pursuit of some moral victory, cancer dies alongside its victim because it literally can not kill its host and continue to live without his/her life force. Alas, cancer’s very existence destines it to either die with Augustus or die at the hands of the treatments meant to eradicate it, and at this point the disease has already crossed the point of no return; Augustus is soon going to die, and the malady will meet its demise alongside him. Within a few short months this comes to pass, and although cancer is also now dead in the case of Augustus Waters, the murderous villain continues to live on in the body of Hazel, victorious in the fact that it has successfully robbed yet another victim of his life. And finally, as the novel’s story comes to an end, it is implied that cancer will succeed once again (though nobody knows when) by killing Hazel herself, leaving cancer to become a villain victorious over the protagonists of the