When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.

The book, which I would like to recommend is When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.

Paul's life was ideal. He was on the verge of completing a decade’s of training as a neurosurgeon, he had a wonderful wife, a lot of friends and a big family. His life changed in one moment. At the age of thirty- six Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Day of diagnosis gave rise to his new life. One day he was a doctor and the next he was a patient who want to live.   

The proverb, which describe situation of Paul says: „The shoemaker's children are ill-shod”. He was a doctor, but he dismissed his back pain. When he had a diagnosis decided to fight with illness. For him, a cancer was a challenge, he was doing everything to recover. This book shows a process of battle for life.

For me, this book is extraordinary. It is a book about a man, who knows that he will die but he wants to take advantage of time which he have. Paul decide to speed up stages in life. He and his wife, knowing that he have a small chance to recover, they decided to have a child. Also, he wanted to write a book and he started to write a book When Breath Becomes Air.

Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book. The last part of this book was written by his wife Lucy. This part containt a point of view of Lucy and her attitude in illness of Paul.