Just finished reading. So hard to finish..so hard to stop reading. This man was a deep writer and thinker...clearly he loved words and you can see how beautifully language is used to convey deeply thought thoughts....and yet he takes a tone of his lifelong training...medical facts meticulously laid out in the prose, where deeper questions are examined in parallel..events and musings laid out as if in a matter of fact of way....that is what shook me. You learn Paul always wondered about the deeper questions of life, always took the path less travelled and at some point decided in his young life that everyone asks about life philosophically, but how about examining the brain that makes up this questioning mind...what happens to it as it faces life and death...and then he showed you to face death..while facing it and meeting it. He chronicled a journey that breaks most minds...while keeping his intact while his body was just disintegrating all around him. I feel sad. Upset. Hard to forget Paul now...but what Have I learnt? Not sure...just picked up the book yesterday and finished today...Paul was ready to go but was it an escape? Or an inevitable walk to his last fate as consciously as possible. I wish Paul could come back and tell more..what happens next. I would totally trust him. Paul...hope you are at ease now! And find those Truths...
I read this book " When Breath Becomes Air" many times. Made me cry coz my husband died with acute leukemia just this past February 4, 2018. Very hard being alone.
Paul Kalanihi had so many gifts and credentials and was exceptional in every single one of them, I am sure that Heaven is graced by him. I am positive. His book is worth more than a bible, about living life.
He beautifully explained the difference between us as a reader and him! It was nice listening to him. I am currently reading the book, just started. Thank you channel for sharing it.
A wonderful soul, among a family of wonderful souls- every time I pick up this book, I feel like i'm surfing a host of emotional waves that feel so powerful- the book is written in a way that makes you feel included, invited into his journey of pain, joy and existential knowledge seeking. As a pre-medical student with an interest in surgery, this book will always be a mighty inspiration for me. God rest his soul.
Thank u Jiwan. Reading the book is really a crystal divity....Aum shanti to his aatma.Lots of move u all went through so much very deep....but he suffered too much. May Cady be able to hold this love for life.If u can please do sm tarpan shraadh on Sudhir name.Thank u
I just finished the book today. I really appreciate that i had an opportunity to read this book. it gave me a looot. So, somehow i became found this thought. I know it s stupid but if there s a God or something watches human life, maybe it knew that he was going to explore a lot about life and death. Maybe he had the ability to explore the most unknown things about 💀 , so just didnt want him to live a long and keep researching forward. Just my stupid thought.
His brother Paul's story is so heartbreaking. Young man in his 30s, with so much to live for, with so much to offer the world, is diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer despite never smoking and growing up in a smoke-free home. There were three important things he wanted to do in life, though, become a doctor, start a family, and write a book. Fortunately, he was able to do all three. Dying terrifies me. I hope it's because I haven't achieved the goals I have for life yet. I can't do anything about dying, but hopefully I can achieve these goals before my time here is over and I can die with grace.
I just heard about Paul story tonight from a solid book im currently reading called Remember Death :The Surprising Path to Living Hope by Matthew McCullough. PLEASE Check it out . Wow Life is truly a vapor . Also check out my story in Good Mourning Joy by Baron Elias Klaif
How smart he was that he did not see specialist when he was at stage one of cancer,loosening weight,and pain on his spine? I don’t trust what he is writing in the book? How could Stanford hospital would let him come back to work full load after he was diagnosed with stage four of cancer? Or even have interviews with another hospital? Who wanted to be his patient during that time? Did the hospital or himself told the patient that he is going to operate their brain ? I read the book and it is baloney.Something is not right with his story…..
