Lessons on Facing Death, Unafraid

Paul Kalanithi spent much of his life examining the nature of life itself, and the inevitable death that results. He found his calling as a neurosurgeon until a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer forced him to reexamine his own mortality. He wrote his memoirs, When Breath Becomes Air, during the final year of his life. These are the twelve passages from the book that I found most meaningful:

If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?Indeed, this is h...