Being Mortal - Book Review

After buying and looking at it for years, I finally picked this one up during a Christmas readathon. I haven't read a physical book in a while so remembering what that was like, turning pages, the familiar ache from holding the book in the same hand for too long, using a bookmark...ah..was definitely very satisfying!! 

'Being Mortal' is about end-of-life care. Through the first 100 pages I kept missing the point- I kept thinking what was there to think so much about helping someone who was ill? You keep trying your best with treatments until they get better. Right? Except that mentality is what the author (a surgeon) has debated and very beautifully so. Where one might draw the line as to when to push and when to step back. And who decides and how? It made me stop and reflect at many points throughout the book, made me think about what I might do in so-and-so situation? Any book about medicine and the processes of the human body automatically has my vote. I'm extremely curious like that. Plus this book is very well written keeping one engaged and flipping through the pages quickly.

30 December 2024