"He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how.'” Viktor Frankl,as a physician-survivor of Auschwitz, quotes Nietzsche's 4 times in his crucial analysis,"Man's Search for Meaning." I think this book should be required reading for medical students. https://t.co/4nLFyuqppW
A delightful tale of 60yr Maggie who is recovering from a stroke.She develops a friendship with her neighbor Tristan over their mutual interest"gardening".Maggie is re-learning how to walk, talk etc.The development of their relationship is BEAUTIFUL #recovery#stroke
Quotes Kafka,“By scribbling I run ahead of myself in order to catch myself up at the finishing post.I cannot run away from myself.” Running is exactly what you wish when you experience the dying of your child.She just wants your presence in life & in the lives of those she loves.
In one part of the book:
A year after she loses her husband,Didion has not found resolution. She worries about his memory fading in her mind, of not keeping him "alive". She writes: I know why we try to keep the dead alive:we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
'I fear the catheter & the stairlift,the oozing body & the wasting brain’.Barnes writes about clearance of his parents bungalow,when each possession then lived with goes to bin liner.Not a day passes but he thinks of death & his mind runs on #oldage,mortality & extinction.#Dying
Dr Raja Gopal
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2018
Known as the “Father of Palliative Care in India”
Must watch for
anyone interested in the power of the human spirit, human rights and social justice, essentially for anyone working in health care.
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