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A review by kovyrin
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
5.0
Fantastic memoir! Terrifying, depressing, beautifully described story of a young neurosurgeon, his cancer diagnosis, his battle with the horrible disease and up to the very end of his life. I found the story of Paul very relatable and just like with Atul Gawande's book I've recently finished, it brought forth very important questions on how should we deal with our own mortality.
Paul gave us a great example of one of the options on how we may choose to spend our last days – the same way we may want to spend our lives: "You can't reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving".
Paul gave us a great example of one of the options on how we may choose to spend our last days – the same way we may want to spend our lives: "You can't reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving".