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Detailed explanation-1: -When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.

Detailed explanation-2: -Paul Kalanithi’s memoir of his battle with cancer, When Breath Becomes Air, was published in January 2016.

Detailed explanation-3: -The memoir of Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon at Stanford University, who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in his mid-thirties. Kalanithi uses the pages in this book to not only tell his story, but also share his ideas on how to approach death with grace and what it means to be fully alive.

Detailed explanation-4: -The title comes from a 16th-century poem by Fulke Greville that demonstrates that feeling of profound calm combined with immense urgency, concentrated into just six lines: You that seek what life is in death, Now find it air that once was breath.