This Is Not the End of Me - Lessons on Living from a Dying Man
epub | 8.74 MB | English | Author :Dakshana Bascaramurty | 0771009631 | 2020 | McClelland & Stewart

Book Description :

For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son.
i can't make you feel what it's like to be a young, dumb, naïve thirty-year-old sitting in the back of a walk-in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more than i can show you what it feels like to have a husband or father or child who's dying and knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it. i can only describe to you how i feel today. angry. at peace. scared. grateful. a giant, spiky, flowering heart-shaped bouquet of contradictions.
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Category : | Grief & Bereavement, Biographies of Medical Professionals, Death & Grief