“I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos,” Ms. Teigen wrote in an essay later that month. Ms. Kilmartin had tweeted about her father’s deterioration and death from lung cancer in 2014 and felt even more an impetus to do so as her mother was dying, because of the combination of grief and isolation. “All you have is your phone.”Ms. Kilmartin followed Ms. Steinsapir’s story on Twitter and understood, from her own experiences, the desire to share in real time. “In a normal situation there would be 20 family members rotating in to support her and her husband,” Ms. Kilmartin said. “When I’m sitting here in this sterile room hour after hour, your messages of hope make me feel less alone.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2021 10:00 UTC