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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. مثل بیمارانم باید با مرگ روبرو می شدم و سعی میکردم بفهمم چه چیزی به زندگی من ارزش زیستن می بخشد. برای انجام این کار به کمک اما هم نیاز داشتم. سرگشته میان دکتر بودن و بیمار بودن، علم پزشکی را زیر و رو می کردم و برای یافتن جواب ها به ادبیات رجوع میکردم. در حالی که مرگ خودم پیش رویم بود، جنگیدم تا زندگی گذشته ام را از نو بسازم. یا شاید زندگی جدیدی بیابم.