Scientists say that all matter was made inside stars through nuclear fusion. Atoms collided with each other and became heavier elements. The stars died and exploded, grenades of matter. The explosions spread the elements and eventually solar systems formed, planets formed, and life was formed. This life mutated, this allowed sentience and thought and creativity, but not all mutations were good. Not every mutant was an x-man. Disease comes from negative mutation, this is the fault in the stars.
Hazel Grace Lancaster died three years ago today, she had cancer, a side effect of life. Her thyroid had mutated and became cancer that was made of her and she was made of cancer. She died thirteen months after Gus, the great star crossed love of her life. At the funeral his dad read Gus' eulogy for Hazel and through in some words about how through pain we can experience joy and other comforting things, it will be a beautiful speech, but both Gus in Hazel in the great "Somewhere" were watching saying how the encouragements are a load of crap. This notion is false but they were young and will never get to properly grow up and understand. Isaac was be there, his speech next and he briefly tells the story of the star crossed lovers who never had a chance at growing old and how he is glad he can't see because the world has lost too much beauty, first in the death of Augustus Waters and then in losing Hazel Grace Lancaster, he was barely be able to give the speech, but he will be strong for them. Van Houten was there as well, he moved to Indianapolis soon after Gus' death and has watched Hazel from a distance, he considered telling her what happened to the hamster, but decided seeing her would be too much pain, though he didn't know if the pain would belong to him or her. Her mom told the story of how her Hazel died, with as much Grace as possible and with a smile on her face that said "I'm okay now, okay?" Her mom did not say that as Hazel died, she was on one side and her husband on the other. How they told their only child that she can let go now and that yes they will still be parent, they will always be her parents and they will always love her present tense, that was just too hard to retell.
Now there is a rumor that if you go to the cross shaped Episcopal Church or the funky bones park or to certain parts of Amsterdam you will hear a faint laughter followed by the words Okay? Okay. But that is mere rumor. You die in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of your life. This is true for everyone, whether they are 16 or 61, even if you had time knowing that death was inevitable there is more to do. A new movie to see, a hand to hold, a prayer to say, or a thought left in the deep recesses of a mind. A life is never complete until it is finished and the curtain closes and life ends.