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Language
English
Description
" 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...
Author
Publisher
Bell Tower
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. Levine practiced dying for a whole year and now he shares how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine our priorities. Provides us with a year-long program of intensely practical strategies and guided meditations to help with this work, so that whenever the ultimate moment does arrive for us, we will not feel...
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Publisher
distributed by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
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.
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