4 Quotes by Lucy Kalanithi

Paul's decision to look death in the eye was a testament not just to who he was in the final hours of his life but who he had always been.

Paul faced each stage of his illness with grace - not with bravado or a misguided faith that he would 'overcome' or 'beat' cancer but with an authenticity that allowed him to grieve the loss of the future he had planned and forge a new one... Paul was fully alive; despite physical collapse, he remained vigorous, open, full of hope not for an unlikely cure but for days that were full of purpose and meaning.

Paul's decision not to avert his eyes from death epitomizes a fortitude we don't celebrate enough in our death-avoidant culture. His strength was defined by ambition and effort, but also by softness, the opposite of bitterness. He spent much of his life wrestling with the question of how to live a meaningful life, and his book explores that essential territory.

...your family will fall apart, but they'll pull it back together because of the example of bravery you set.