Dr. Lucy Kalanithi

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Lucy Kalanithi: What Loss Can Teach Us About Living (The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything) · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

You continue to learn new things about them.

You know, with Paul, I hear from Paul's readers about his book, and that's sort of like an ongoing relationship thing.

with him through other people.

Anyway, I guess it's all just like a beautiful, terrible mix.

Thank you for sharing that.

Yeah.

I mean, like the thing that makes me feel like when it bursts into tears is actually a thing I don't yet understand, which is, you know, Paul, he was a doctor.

He was a young neurosurgeon, really interested in meaning and mortality.

Like,

thought he would become a professor of philosophy or a writer and then sort of surprised himself by going into medicine and was incredibly intoxicated by neurosurgery because the brain is just an organ in our body, like our liver, like our heart, but then it's also the seat of identity.

And he was so interested in, okay, if you're undergoing like brain trauma, a stroke, you know, a tumor, how does that alter your identity and meaning?

But also how does like neurosurgery alter your sense of identity?

He was really interested in patients who were facing like upheavals in meaning and identity.

Then he himself became sick, had to face this whole upheaval, had to face the end of his life.

And I felt like as Paul was going through this serious illness and dying, I really felt immediately in it with him.

I felt so like fused with him.

We had to do so many things together to take care of him, to make sure the book got written, to cope, to like show up for each other in like every way.

Like when and if something happens to me and I'm sick and dying, if I'll read Paul's book and see how much I didn't understand and see like new things in the words or like reflect on his experience and think like, oh, was he alone in that?

And so like that sort of breaks my heart.

Like what did I miss?

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