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When Breath Becomes Air

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Call no.
: 616.99424 KAL
Author
: Paul Kalanithi
Contributor
: Safwan Hanif Bin Osman
Summary
Death is a sure thing. But we never know when. This memoir entails the story of Paul Kalanithi himself as he battles stage IV metastatic lung cancer. A bright student who found himself immersed in reading at such a young age, he became curious about neuroscience and the meaning of life itself. He enrolled Yale where he met his wife, Lucy, and started his residency at Stanford where symptoms of his cancer first arise. Skipping graduation due to his health worsening, he retires from surgery while trying to find other options. A story akin to Greek tragedy, his inevitable death was pinned down when Lucy wrote the epilogue after his death.