A review by divyatejas_venkatesh
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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4.5

Books starts of interesting about being diagnosed with cancer and movie forward like the Indian movies the flashback is showed and the values he has learned as a neurological surgeon. The way he understands death is nice and the way he accepts it is good which makes him mature. I would have loved to meet him in person. This is the first autobiography book that made me hooked up until the end. Also I started it in the morning and completed by night. The book was small and the letters and the gap between the lines are large so if you wanna know about accepting the death and being a doctor this would be the best book to pick. It is nearly like Luffy's(a character in one piece) take on death, it doesn't matter what you do if you die being the person you want to be you should be fine by it. As the same i think if Paul has taken a break from being a surgeon he would have had a better chance at longer life(though it is not mentioned like that in the book, just saying that not giving more tension the organs and body would have preserved your energy more to fight cancer.)but he chose to be the surgeon he wants to be and lived the life till he could and accepted the death to face.