Gratitude

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"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--

subjects: Gratitude,  Aging,  Death,  Neurologists,  Psychological aspects,  Biography,  Neurologists, biography,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2015-12-20,  New York Times bestseller,  Neurology,  Physicians,  Attitude to Death,  Psychology

People: Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)

Places: United States,  England