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Paul Kalanithi
2017 May
‘We’re going to live a long time’
‘Terminal illness’
‘Things that have weight have gravity’
‘A calling’
‘Live death to understand it’
‘Statistics’
‘Physically Debilitated’
‘An asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.’
‘None was forthcoming.’
‘The days are long, but the years are short.’
‘Unattainable prognostic ability’
‘Paperwork as patients’
‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici’
‘Hernia’
‘Cadavers’
‘Cadaver dissection’
‘Weightless’
‘Vocabulary’
‘A new dimension to my understanding’
‘Literature’
‘Defined the horizon’
‘Escapade’
‘What it felt like’
‘The only time’
‘Survived that part’
‘Upset’
‘Work schedule eased’
‘Slacked our thirst’
‘Craniotomy’
‘Service a new friendship’
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