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When Breath Becomes Air

Von: Paul Kalanithi
Gesprochen von: Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra
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The New York Times number-one best seller.

At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?

Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.

©2016 Paul Kalanithi (P)2016 Random House AudioBooks Beziehungen Persönliche Entwicklung Soziologie Tod & Sterben Trauer & Verlust

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"Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.... Unmissable." ( New York Times)
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strong and heartfelt story about life health and priorities and probably ignorance of the importance of our daily life and the focus that drives us.

eye opening story about life and importance

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Others have made long positive reviews and I can only say that I agree. It’s well written, deep and thoughtful. You won’t regret reading or listening to it.

As good as it gets

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A philosophical analysis about the life and the meaning of it, from a doctor that os diagnosed with terminal cancer. Very strong book.

A rise of the meaning of life when it goes

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Thank you for sharing your experience. Was interesting, I liked the medical insight. Some brave decisions were made.

Was Ok

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I loved the story, very powerful and profound. one's search for the meaning of life, even in the face of deatg

A story about Paul's search for meaning.

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Amazing story of a deep thinker that encounters death. It really made me think about life.

Deep thoughts, wonderfully wirtten

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Tragic to see how somebody so educated in the medical field can be so blind to a holistic sense of health - the author destroyed his own body on the way to become a medical expert (way too much stress & pressure, no sleep, poor diet) and until the end couldn't identify this lifestyle as the main reason to become sick with cancer. When recovered from cancer he went back into that same lifestyle - clearly not having learned his lesson. People see disease as something unexplainable way too often while it can simply be the consequence of how you have treated your body and mind in the past years. Your body can generallly heal itsself with enough healthy foods, sleep, some movement and a calm mind. Disease happens when there is an imbalance and yes, sometimes it needs extra medicine and surgery - it can save lives. But Paul paid with death for the limited perspective on health as taught in the Western medical system neglecting general principles. Eastern medicine has understood so much more of the interconnection of gut health aka nutrition, mind, body, emotions etc. He could have been a great brain surgeon for hundreds of people in the years to come if the working conditions in the medical system weren't so horrific and if he hadn't lost touch with his body awareness becoming way too mind-driven - as so many of us have.

It's the constant striving, the urge to DO and achieve - would Paul have had some more weeks or months with his wife and small daughter if he hadn't been so pressured to finish this book? Who knows. He seems to have been an intelligent and kind-hearted person and he shares a few good thoughts about life & death and the role of a medical doctor in this interplay. But it just makes me sad to see that the rigid clinging to his ambitions (obviously firstly started by his education-focussed parents but also commonly accepted in the performance-driven American society and medical world) to finish residency and be the best led to him being dead instead of a happy, intelligent man that people enjoy and benefit from being around. Letting go can be so much stronger and more important at timws than holding fast.

All in all, I would recommend the book to people who want to learn more about the rough world of the medical profession (as the main part of the book just narrates from the author's experiences in this field) or to doctors - but for people who have read a lot of spiritual literature, it might be giving little inisght and end up somewhat disappointing.

Tragedy of medical unconsciousness

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Didn't meet my expectations. Storytelling is good and the voice is not boring to listen to, but storywise it's lacking. I could not identify with the protagonist's worldview and it was rather alienating to me (little value given to happiness and pleasure and lot of value given to hard work).

A rather disappointing story/bio

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But the story is, to me, not recognizable. I hate that Paul died bc he must have been a stellar guy.

But the book felt flat and anticlimactic to me. Nevertheless Im happy I read it bc it reminded me of my own mortality. But entertaining, it was not.

Great prose and speaker

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