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عندما تتحول الأنفاس إلى هواء: اجعل لحياتك معنى قبل فوات الأوان by Paul Kalanithi
4 reviews
tellingmyselfastory's review against another edition
5.0
Our culture doesn't like to discuss death but this does in such a thoughtful way. It's real and honest. But it's also about living. And how living and dying are connected. Living with the knowledge you are dying.
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Infertility and Pregnancy
Discussion of IVF and family planningmdwsn27's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Medical trauma
emgovan's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy
flamingtashhh's review against another edition
2.0
In seriousness, I didn’t like the author at all. I cried at the end because of course death is terrible, but this was out of no love for him. He seemed to have a lot of self-importance that was tied to his work. I’m very grateful for medicine, but this kind of arrogance- that which declares medical treatment to be the greatest of all treatment, or at least doctors the best givers of care there are- is dangerous and absurd. It’s like if Jack from Lost wrote a book. I know plenty of people like this author, and none of them are happy and I wouldn’t take seriously any philosophical treatises of theirs, either.
And I’m not going to make a habit of picking apart the prose of a man writing through his last year, so I have nothing to say about the writing itself.
I actually liked the epilogue a lot, written by the author’s wife. She says there’s a lot he didn’t convey about himself and his values in the book, and honestly I really appreciated that. Her notes, and the pain and hurt in them, really gave another dimension to what would have otherwise been an uninteresting read.
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail