When Breath Becomes Air question

Some of his drive I believe was that he wanted to live his life on his own "timeline" being in control of the things that were most important to him at that moment.

My feeling after reading the book is that even though he is a skilled neurosurgeon and loved his job, his first love was always language and writing. He knew he had very less time to give for that passion, now that his fate is almost sealed. It was that passion that drove him.

All of us when faced with our death want to know that somehow,somewhere we made a difference if not in others lives then at least our own. Paul always was driven to make that difference but the timeline got accelerated with his illness

Personally, I would say it was a way to communicate with his daughter about who he was as the prime motivator.

The drive behind writing could have been the wish of some sort of legacy and communication with his un-borned child. But what drove him to perform the last operation under such stress? It could have been an act of rebellion against the fate as Amy and Girri are suggesting.....

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I felt like what drove Paul on was that he refused to stop living. Just like when he performed his last surgery, he wanted to perform it because he knew he could do it and he refused to let the disease control any more of his life than it had to.

i wrote my college essay about this book. moved me to tears, he was such a strong person. will recommend this to all my friends.

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I think he found purpose in sharing his story and definitely valued his life even though it was cut short. It also seemed like at the end of his life, he found a lot of meaning, purpose and peace in spirituality and faith.

Paul was looking to finish his passion about the brain and make a difference in the life of others, he try’s so hard but the clock biological was there .... so sad but still he did write this book

He understood death. He lived with it for many years. When he finally saw it across the street, he understood that the only thing left was to live his life until it was time to hold hands with it. That's what I took from this book. We all are on Paul's journey. We all see death across the street but many of us don't dare even to acknowledge its presence. What Paul did at the end of his life, it's what we all should be doing every day of our lives. Do the things we want to do, love the people we have to love, forgive those who need to be forgiven, and appreciate this limited and precious resource called time. He knew all along that writing was his call, but circumstances of life took him to be an extraordinary neurosurgeon. When he realized that his life was coming to an end, he spent his time doing the thing he knew he had to do since the beginning. Whatever it is that we know we have to do, let's do it right now, this moment, that is the only thing we have for certain. As Buddhists say "Our actions are the ground upon which we stand".