Dr. Lucy Kalanithi
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first heard Jul 2026
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Like, you know, when people are dying and they're trying to make a difficult decision like Paul did.
I wrote about this in the end of Paul's book, but he was very, very sick and ultimately got rushed to the ICU because he was suffering so much and couldn't breathe well.
And then had to make this decision about whether to be intubated, like whether to be on a breathing machine.
A lot of people who are sick end up sort of with a North Star of what's really important to them.
I want to be with my family.
I want to be free of pain.
I want to make it to my child's graduation.
For Paul, his was I want to be mentally lucid.
Like I want to be mentally lucid to like be with my family and keep writing as long as I can write.
He literally was like writing up until like two to three days before he died.
And so that decision about whether to be intubated became really clear, you know, where he's like, there's a chance if I get intubated, then I will not be extubated and instead like we'll stop life support.
And so for him, it was like the way to like maintain his dignity was like, or align with his values was like, okay, if this is the end of mental lucidity, then this is the end of
And like, we'll listen to you.
Yeah.
You know, like, great.
Like, we'll make that happen.
Which was when that was actually happening.
It was like incredibly confusing, incredibly painful, incredibly so hard.
But also like so there was a grounding thing, which was like, what's important to Paul?
Totally.
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