ABC: When Breath Becomes Air
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The Teacher's Guide to Mortality
There's something there in the sort of overturning of our expectations that adds to our sense of the fragility of life. It goes to sort of make his larger point about mortality really effectively, but I also agree that there's sort of equality to him as a tragic figure that is especially sympathetic. "I want this book to be for people so that they can see what's coming like I'm tumbling this"
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