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The chapter is a brief interlude in which we hear about the death of one of Kate’s sisters from AIDS in 2001, the shock and sorrow of the two sisters caring for her at the hospital during the last days of her life, and their own fear of dying poor like their sister; that is, dying without relatives being there to care for you and without a place to be properly buried.
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Mogensen, H.O. (2020). Dying Poor. In: Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47523-9_7
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