“I will share your joy and sorrow / Till we’ve seen this journey through.”
The quote above is from Paul Kalanithi’s “When Breath Becomes Air”, a book that I had been reading aloud to Peter over the past few weeks. I’d like to buy a thousand copies and give one to everybody I know. I highly recommend reading the whole book (including its wonderful foreward by Dr. Abraham Verghese). Before he died at age 37, Kalinthi was an up-and-coming neurosurgeon who also enjoyed wresting with literary and philosophical precepts. Upon his diagnosis with the lung cancer that would take his life in less than two years, he began writing this open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir about how to live when you know you’re going to die.
A 2014 NYT op-Ed by Dr. Kalanithi “How Long Have I Got Left?”
https://nyti.ms/1jIx5tj?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Foreward by Dr. Abraham Verghese