When Breath Becomes Air chornicles the life of Paul Kalanithi who after having completed a decade long training as a neurosurgeon is confronted with being diagnosed of lung cancer. From being one who treated serious patients to being a patient with a terminal disease. Kalanithi started penning this auto-biography after he was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and was counting days.
It is a moving story about Kalanithi’s own life from being a student pondering over the meaningfulness of life. To a famous neurosurgeon who operated brains that deals with the core of human identity. To being a new father at a time when his own life is awaiting an uncanny end.
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In writing about his own life, Kalanithi puts forth some reflecting questions. What is a person supposed to do when his life is catastrophically cut off? What makes a life admirable and worth living right in the face of death? And, finally, what does it mean to have a child right when one’s own life is on the verge of perennial slumber? Paul Kalanithi passed away while working on the book yet ‘When Breath Becomes Air’. It is regarded as a profound reflection on the acceptance of mortality and on the relationship between a patient and a doctor, all from an author, who had to face it all.
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