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This is a book conclusion of When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Original book description: When Breath Becomes Air; hardcover - deckle border; January 12, 2016 by Paul Kalanithi (writer); Abraham Verghese (foreword) Number-one New York Times best seller For listeners of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely discovered memoir by a young neurosurgeon confronted with a terminal malignancy diagnosis who endeavors to answer fully the question: Why is a life price living? At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's well worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with level IV lung malignancy. One day he was a doctor dealing with the dying, and the next he was an individual struggling to live on. And exactly like that, the future he and his partner had thought evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's change from a naïve medical student "possessed", as he composed, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the mind, the most significant place for human being identity, and lastly into an individual and new father confronting his own mortality. Why is life worth living in the facial skin of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a fresh life as another fades away? These are a few of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely discovered memoir. Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, while working on this e book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift idea to people. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a way, had changed little or nothing and everything," he composed. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett started to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'"
