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When breath becomes air: Epilogue

When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger a what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s last days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to…… Continue reading When breath becomes air: Epilogue

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Review: When breath becomes air

This is a memoir by Paul Kalanithi who was a Neurosurgeon and passed away at the age of 37 from metastatic lung cancer. He chose Neurosurgery for “its unforgiving call to perfection… it seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity and death” What compelled me to pick this book was his…… Continue reading Review: When breath becomes air