1.In her view, medical students should learn to trivialise death enough to cope but humanise it enough to help, and their formal education caters disproportionately to the former.
6.As for writers, good work should humanise whatever it is about, which is why stories often begin with a named person before going into causation and abstraction.
7.And rather than appalling our companions, these revelations may serve to endear us to them, humanising us in their eyes, and letting them feel that their own vulnerabilities have echoes in the lives of others.