Kalanithi still lives, with enormous power to influence the lives of others even though he is gone.ĭr. To paraphrase Abraham Verghese’s introduction, to read this book is to feel that Dr. Kalanithi, who died at 37, went on to write a great, indelible book, “When Breath Becomes Air,” that is as intimate and illuminating as Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal,” to cite only one recent example of a doctor’s book that has had exceptionally wide appeal. The bittersweet news is that in the 22 months left to him, Dr.
He had led a fascinating life and was not about to leave it unchronicled.
The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.” It was a jokey way of dealing with the unthinkable but also an indication of Dr. Paul Kalanithi sent his best friend an email in May 2013 revealing that he had terminal cancer, he wrote: “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats and Stephen Crane.
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