Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

BATB score: 10/10 🖤

nobody writes about our inevitable mortality like Dr. Atul Gawande #bravo 👏

Best to: our impulse is to fight death - chemo, surgery, sutures, bring it; there is always something more that the doctors can do. but the fact that we are trying so hard to fix things may be shortening or worsening the time we hardly have left. so is it quantity or quality?

Best for: all of us. eye-opening; ask your loved ones today "if time becomes short, what is most important to you?"

Best as: we have been doing our death plan wrong; though understandable, we do only die once

Best quote: "How we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. [...] When you see the future ahead of you as finite and uncertain, your focus shifts to the here and now, to everyday pleasures and the people closest to you."

"We witnessed for ourselves the consequences of living for the best possible day today instead of sacrificing time now for time later."