Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Book Review When my heart began to fail and my physicians told me that I needed to prepare myself for dying, I searched everywhere for manuals, guidebooks that would help me to do that.  I was an academic, and the way I approached everything in my life was through research; why would my dying be any different? I found medical volumes, which described processes of aging and various terminal illnesses; I also discovered religious publications that sought to explain what happens after death.  But I was devastated by the lack of any volumes that … Continue reading Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Book Review