最後, Paul Kalanithi 的醫生跟他說:「你去世後,你的家人會心碎,可是他們將重新振作起來,因為你的勇氣會是他們的榜樣。」 其實,Paul的勇氣也是所有人的榜樣。還有,他給女兒這一段傷感和美麗的字句:That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.
對於 Paul Kalanithi 可能是when breath becomes air,對於他剛出生的女兒則是when air becomes breath.