These teenagers are dying of cancer for no good reason. This indifference and insensitivity is something that Hazel brings up in one of the Cancer Kid Support Group meetings. He recites from a fictional novel called An Imperial Affliction, written by Peter Van Houton, in which he says: “There will come a time when there will be no human beings left to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will no longer be anyone who remembers Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything we have done, built, written, thought and discovered will be forgotten and all this will have been useless” (2). This understanding expressly says that sooner or later everyone will die, that death is inevitable, and that life will end in oblivion. Furthermore, he believes that there is no meaning to life. Augustus, who has a more “meaningful” view of life, finds this perspective so intriguing and fights against his negativism. He intends to justify to her that forgetting is unacceptable and that there must be a point in this