This is my book summary of When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary includes key lessons and important passages from the book. This is a list of authors, books, and concepts mentioned in When.
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ExcerptWhen Breath Becomes AirA few years later, I hadn't thought much more about a career but had nearly completed degrees in English literature and human biology. I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain. Meaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values. Eliot's The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.
I found Eliot's metaphors leaking into my own language. Other authors resonated as well.
Nabokov, for his awareness of how our suffering can make us callous to the obvious suffering of another. Conrad, for his hypertuned sense of how miscommunication between people can so profoundly impact their lives. Literature not only. Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers!For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?Use these discussion questions to guide your book club discussion of When Breath Becomes Air. How did you come away feeling, after reading this book? Less afraid?.
What did you think of Paul's exploration of the relationship between science and faith? As Paul wrote, 'Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human. The late Paul Kalanithi, a non-smoking neurosurgeon, was diagnosed with squamous cell lung cancer. When Breath Becomes Air is his autobiography.' Cancer' is a name given to a collection of diseases in which a set of cells in the body begin dividing abnormally and without stopping. Unlike their healthy counterparts, cancer cells lack the mechanism that tells them to stop multiplying, as well as the process known as programmed cell death (aka 'apoptosis'), which gets rid of unneeded cells.
These damaged cells eventually crowd out the good and may lead to death if the condition can't be treated.Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men (following prostate cancer) and women (after breast cancer). About 221,200 new cases of.