Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Lost in a featureless wasteland of my own mortality, and finding no traction in the reams of scientific studies, intracellular molecular pathways, and endless curves of survival statistics, I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Mo
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Because I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Any major illness transforms a patient’s—really, an entire family’s—life.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
futurity:
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
despondency.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Capacious