She wanted - what some people want throughout life - a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanise and make her capable of sympathy.
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.
Mr Sen wants to humanise canons of “maximising” rationality; behavioural economists, much in fashion, aim to ditch them altogether.
Last night, Olly Kendall, director of Westminster Public Affairs, said tweeting helped MPs' humanise 'themselves.