When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi\u2019s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity \u2013 the brain \u2013 and finally into a patient and a new father.<\/p>\n
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?<\/p>\n
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air<\/i> is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option…Unmissable’ New York Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade\u2019s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[38,51,45],"product_tag":[34,35,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-479","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-business-life","7":"product_cat-illnesses-conditions","8":"product_cat-study-work","9":"product_tag-book","10":"product_tag-business-life","11":"product_tag-illnesses-conditions","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n