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For visitors of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely seen memoir by a neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer tumor diagnosis who makes an attempt to answer fully the question: What makes a life well worth living? At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's worthwhile of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer tumor. 1 day he was a health care provider treating the dying, and another he was an individual struggling to live. And just like that, the near future he and his wife had thought evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical pupil "possessed", as he published, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and significant life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the mind, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into an individual and new dad confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What now ? when the near future, no more a ladder toward your targets in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? Exactly what does it mean to have a child, to nurture a fresh life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely seen memoir. Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, while working on this e book, yet his words go on as helpful information and a present to us all. "I began to realize that coming in person with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing at all and everything," he published. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my own mind: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the task of facing fatality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant copy writer who became both.
