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Kubler-Ross traces her intellectual and spiritual destiny, from her childhood in Switzerland, her work in war-ravaged Poland, and her pioneering counseling of the terminally ill, to her seminars on death and dying at the university of Chicago, and her discussions with those who had been revived after death.

" At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. "When Breath Becomes Air" chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the...