Writing it wouldn’t be easy because of his fragile and worsening health. The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.” Writing a friend about his diagnosis he said, “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats and Stephen Crane. When neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi got the news that he was going to die of cancer in his mid-thirties, he wanted to make sure he left his piece of wisdom in writing. Maybe we would leave some sort of wisdom for those who come after us. Maybe we would spend less time working and more time with family or helping others. It might not be a pleasant thing to dwell on, but maybe if we did we would try to live more meaningful lives. But we go about most days not thinking about our inevitable death. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*:
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