Summary Of When Breath Becomes Air

After reading the book When Breath Becomes Air we got a general idea of a certain type of cancers like brain cancer and the different treatment options you have when it comes to being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Terminal illnesses are a big deal and I personally feel if you have a chance to try to prolong your life and a possibility to get rid of this illness I say go for it. Paul Kalanithi the author of When Breath Becomes Air was a surgeon who was diagnosed with a terminal illness specifically brain cancer and he had different options to whether he wanted to prolong his life with different treatments or just to let the illness play its role. When it comes to prolonging a terminal ill patient it can be a big controversial discussion, I
In the book Kalanithi was looking into what treatments he could do to help fight off his terminal illness. Kalanithi eventually got to the point where he wanted to try to take the chance and start chemo. Another patient I read about in the article, “Assisted Suicide” was Lee Johnson who also was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer just like Kalanithi. Johnsons daughter Heather Clish mentions, “when he developed terminal brain cancer, he opted for radiation treatments and chemotherapy to extend his life, even though the disease “was undeniably going to kill him,” (451). Both patients had terminal brain cancer and both opted to go the route of doing chemotherapy, knowing that their cancer was very strong and killing them anyways, but the whole reason to trying it was to have the chance to prolong their lives as much as possible even with a killing disease inside of them. Having the chance to do chemotherapy to help prolong your life is so beneficial to not only the patient’s life but their family and friends to know that chemo helped them have a chance to prolong the lives of ill