Book Review 14: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.
“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air. An English Literature and Human Biology Graduate, Paul Kalanithi went ahead to practice medicine and become a neurosurgeon to find an answer to the question - "Where did Biology, Mortality, Literature and Philosophy intersect?" 'When Breath Becomes Air' is the heartbreaking memoir of Paul Kalanithi . At the age of thirty-six, at the peak of his career as a neurosurgeon, when he with his wife was looking forward to a beautiful future ahead, Dr. Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV of lung cancer. His story shows us how it feels to see death approaching, and shattering all the plans that one had planned for the future. How the deadly disease cut short the life of such a promising neurosurgeon who could have saved the lives of so many people. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. This book made me contemplate the meaning...