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The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget. You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months
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She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
despondency.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
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,
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A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.
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