When Breath Becomes Air

A man of thirty-six is on the verge of completing his training as a neurosurgeon. He has seen dreams with his wife for a bright future. He is so happy. Suddenly one day when his severe back pains become more than he could handle, he visits a doctor. And here he comes to know that he is about to die due to lung cancer. He has at most twenty-two months to live. He decides to write a memoir and have a child. The decision to have a child is the most difficult one as now he will have to leave one more loving person. Still he goes on and with the support of his doctor wife writes a book and has a girl child. Then he leaves this world in March 2015.

And this man whose story has welled up our eyes by now is Paul Kalanithi. He has named his memoir ‘When Breath Becomes Air.’ The introduction on the Amazon page is quite enough to shudder our souls who on seeing our loved ones dying dismiss them as unlucky cases and carry on with our lives as we are so sure about our own immortality. This book wakes us up to fulfill our dreams at the earliest. The book releases on 04-02-2016. You can pre-order it on Amazon.