When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi

When breath becomes air

You had become a popular neurosurgeon and suddenly one day you came to know that you have stage 4 cancer and your days are numbered. How will you feel?

How your days will be from that moment? If your wife is pregnant and going to give birth to your first baby how you feel?

It was the life of Paul Kalanithi, author of ‘When Breath becomes Air‘.

In the view of his own death how he will feel about his past,present and future? As a neurosurgeon by knowing all the symptoms and implications how to take those details personally. For his patient he had hidden some facts about the disease and did consolation to them to make them feel better. But how can he do to this to himself when he knows where it leads. How his life will be for the remaining days while his daughter is crawling and he is lying permanently.

A must read book of life time.

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