Dr. Lucy Kalanithi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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Yeah, luckily.
And at the same time, I'm making it sound easy and it totally was.
It was so, so painful and so confusing.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's hard to separate, actually, like being so close to death and being so close to Paul.
Because it was like so embodied, you know, and it's funny.
It's like you're talking about your friend dying and like what a surprise that is when someone young dies.
And it's like the way I've ended up like conceiving of it is sort of like turns out that's what was going to happen.
Like that helps me a lot, actually.
I think like being so close to someone who's dying is.
actually taught me something about dying, which is that until you die, you're alive.
You know, like what happened for Paul was like, he got, he was a neurosurgeon, got diagnosed with cancer, worked for a year as a neurosurgeon.
Like, this is who I am.
This is what I care about.
Then I got pregnant during that year on purpose.
Then he had sort of serendipitously and because he was a beautiful writer, transitioned to writing first essays and then a memoir.
And so he sort of like built a new vocation during the time that he was sick.
And it's like he was so sick and so like debilitated and still, like physically still and like one, you know, he was ill.
And at the same time, he was so like engaged in what he was doing, like so just sort of like intellectually engaged in the world of ideas and in the world of relationships to like being a new dad.
And it was just really interesting to see, like one of the book reviews of Paul's book was by this doctor named Gavin Francis.
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