Kalanithi was born in New York, moving at age 10 with his family to Kingman, Arizona. Rest in peace, my beloved brother.” Undergraduate years at Stanford I am extremely proud of him, both in life and in death. He was a good doctor, a good husband, a good father and a good man. My brother achieved more in his short life than what most people do in twice that time. He did so with customary bravery and poise, and died in peace on his own terms with his family around him. In a March 10 Facebook post, Suman Kalanithi, one of Kalanithi’s brothers, wrote, “Yesterday my brother Paul passed away about two years after being diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
He closed his Stanford Medicine essay with words for his infant daughter: “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. Kalanithi’s essays, “ How Long Have I Got Left?” for The New York Times and “ Before I Go” for Stanford Medicine, reflected his insights on grappling with mortality, his changing perception of time and the meaning he continued to experience despite his illness. It affects us like a death in a closely knit family.” He’s very much part of our neurosurgical family. “We are all devastated by the tragedy of his sudden illness and untimely demise,” said Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, professor and chair of neurosurgery. Kalanithi, who had recently completed his neurosurgery residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine and become a first-time father, was an instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery and fellow at the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, MD, who wrote eloquently and movingly about facing mortality after being diagnosed with lung cancer, died of the disease March 9.
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