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Jayam Wijayaratnam Cancer Care Center ‘Good death’ and the necessity of aesthetics Source : sundayobserver My friend, Chelvadurai Anjalendran has been talking to me about his ‘cancer hospital project’ for quite some time, sending me on and off images of its interior and the construction process via WhatsApp. But living in Delhi and not having seen the site, I could not fully visualise what he had imagined this space should be like. However, knowing his work, I naturally assumed it would be an aesthetic and architectural masterpiece worth talking about at some point in time. It is only recently I paid attention to its benefactors. I learned that the 100-bed hospital, officially called ‘Jayam Wijayaratnam Cancer Care Center’ is named after long-time Negombo resident, businessman and local politician, the late Jayam Wijayaratnam. Vision He had a vision to build a hospital of this kind after witnessing the hardships of cancer patients, ...