When Breath Becomes Air

Book #19: When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

What makes life worth living?  What is it that gives meaning to our lives?  Paul Kalanithi spent his life trying to answer these questions, first through literature, then through medicine.  He wanted to study the meaning of life through the faces of patients losing theirs. But when he, at the age of 36, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, his quest took a profound turn.  His quest became personal.  With then end in view and in the flurry of medical care, he reflected on what made each remaining day worth living?  This is a fascinating discourse on existential nature of a life well lived.  And as a physician, it is an interesting physician’s perspective of death and disease.

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