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“He, uh—he apparently had a difficult complication, and his patient died. Last night he climbed onto the roof of a building and jumped off. I don’t really know anything else.” I searched for a question to bring understanding. None was forthcoming. I could only imagine the overwhelming guilt, like a tidal wave, that had lifted him up and off that building.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Death, so familiar to me in my work, was now paying a personal visit.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death—examined it, wrestled with it, accepted it—as a physician and a patient. He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“You that seek what life is in death, Now find it air that once was breath. New names unknown, old names gone: Till time end bodies, but souls none. Reader! then make time, while”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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