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100 1  Kalanithi, Paul,|eauthor. 
245 10 When breath becomes air /|cPaul Kalanithi ; foreword by 
       Abraham Verghese. 
250    Large print edition. 
264  1 Waterville, Maine :|bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, 
       Cengage Learning,|c2016. 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    241 pages (large print) ;|c23 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
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490 1  Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative 
       nonfiction 
505 0  Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect 
       health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by 
       Lucy Kalanithi 
520    At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's 
       worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's 
       health began to falter. He started losing weight and was 
       wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan 
       confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had 
       stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he 
       was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the 
       next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that,
       the future he and his wife had imagined, the culmination 
       of decades of striving, evaporated. Breath Becomes Air 
       approaches the questions raised by facing mortality from 
       the dual perspective of the neurosurgeon who spent a 
       decade meeting patients in the twilight between life and 
       death, and the terminally ill patient who suddenly found 
       himself living in that liminality. At the base of Paul's 
       inquiry are essential questions such as: What makes life 
       worth living in the face of death? What happens when the 
       future, instead of being a ladder toward the goals of life,
       flattens out into a perpetual present? When faced with a 
       terminal diagnosis, what does it mean to have a child, to 
       nurture a new life as another one fades away? As Paul 
       wrote, "Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that 
       someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the 
       diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't 
       know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn't 
       really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. 
       Yet there is no other way to live." Paul Kalanithi passed 
       away in March 2015, while working on this book. 
600 10 Kalanithi, Paul|xHealth. 
600 10 Kalanithi, Paul|xDeath. 
650  0 Lungs|xCancer|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Terminally ill|vBiography. 
650  0 Neurosurgeons|vBiography. 
650  0 Husband and wife. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Large type books. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
830  0 Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative 
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