Gratitude

Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933 and attended Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon met the patients he would write about in his book Awakenings.

No other writer has captured the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During his final months, he wrote a series of essays in which he explored his feelings about finishing a life and coming to terms with his own death.

"It is every human being's fate," Sacks writes, "to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, and to die his own death." These four essays, taken together, form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and gratitude for the gift of life in Gratitude.

"No other clinician or writer was like Oliver Sacks." He was drawn to nursing homes, institutions for the elderly and disabled, and the company of the unusual and 'abnormal.' He desired to observe humanity in its various manifestations in his own, almost anachronistic manner—face to face, over time, away from our burgeoning apparatus of computers and algorithms. And he showed us what he saw through his writing."

Being Mortal author Atul Gawande

Author: Oliver Sacks

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