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When Breathe Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
An inspiring memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon lives with a terminal illness
May 07, 2026
1 mins
When Breathe Becomes Air is an inspiring and well-told memoir about an idealistic young surgeon who was treating the dying and then became a patient struggling to live. He attempts to answer the question, what makes a life worth living? The surgeon and author died while writing this book, yet his words live on as a guide and 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."
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