Paul Kalanithi

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. "Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable". (New York Times). At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both

p b THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER br br Rattling Heartbreaking Beautiful Atul Gawande bestselling author of i Being Mortal i b br br b i What makes life worth living in the face of death i b br br At the age of thirty six on the verge of completing a decade s training as a neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer One day he was a doctor treating the dying the next he was a patient struggling to live br br i When Breath Becomes Air i chronicles Kalanithi s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity the brain and finally into a patient and a new father br br Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book yet his words live on as a guide to us all i When Breath Becomes Air i is a life affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient from a gifted writer who became both br br b A vital book about dying Awe inspiring and exquisite Obligatory reading for the living Nigella Lawson b p

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APRENDER A MORIR ES APRENDER A VIVIR.Recuerda que vas a morir. Vive es una inolvidableáreflexión llena de vida de lo que significaáenfrentarse a la muerte."Cuatro palabras de Samuel Beckett empezaron a repetirse enami cabeza: No puedo seguir. Seguire."A la edad de treinta y seis años, y a punto de acabar una decada de residenciaapara obtener un puesto fijo como neurocirujano, a Paul Kalanithiase le diagnostico un cancer de pulmon. Paso de ser un doctor queatrataba casos graves a ser un paciente que luchaba por vivir.aEn este libro, cargado de positivismo, Kalanithi reflexiona sobre lasagrandes cuestiones de la vida mientras se enfrenta a la muerte.La realidadade la muerteaes inquietante,apero no hay otraamanera de vivir,aPaul Kalanithia

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decades worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithis transformation from a naive medical student possessed, as he wrote, by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.What makes life worth living in the face 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 new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything, he wrote. Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: I cant go on. Ill go on. When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.