A neurosurgeon’s story about his living and dying of lung cancer at the age of 36 while finishing his Chief Resident year at Stanford.  Kalanithi and his internist wife live through two years of hope, depression, and advancing illness until his death, while she completed this tale after his death.  A second generation-Indian/physician, Kalanithi made the leap from Kingsman, AZ to Stanford and then Yale Med School before choosing neurosurgery as a calling, not a job.  His philosophic nature explored the interface of life, death, hope, and the inevitable end which every person faces, but which he was forced to face way too early.  Beautifully written and thought-provoking, Kalanithi’s tale provides every mortal with basic questions, though no answers.