Karen Lynne

I don't mean no respect to the dead, but given the terminal ill condition of the author, shouldn't he be resting & eating well & spending more time meditating & chilling to achieve mental balance, in order to get his health back on track within the 9 months time since confirmed on the tumors to new tumors discovered? Do people really think, even the top doctors mentioned in the book, that the current medical science is so advanced that you could just take a pill to fight off an agreesive/wide spread/terminal cancer to multiple organs within 6 months, then head back to work 12+ hrs while not eating & resting properly & live unbalanced to life's extreme limits?! WTH?! Why?! It's like as if he's asking for death & killing himself, yet no one stopped him, or worse, even realized what was wrong in what he was doing to his own health & life... It's just beyond my comprehension & common sense of such a well educated & trained professional's thoughts & judgement. As if he lived his life in such a rush, without better understanding of the value & appreciation of his own precious life. Nothing matters if you ain't healthy enough to be alive! I understand mentally & spiritually he was trying to beat death & uncertain by doing more & finding new identify & feeling achieving the old life goal again. But even I'm not a well trained doctor, with basic knowledge in medicine, he should have known better that he was draining & exhausting his life energy reserve while his body was trying so hard to fight off cancer, while he's abusing the life force excessively beyond its limits.... I just wasn't surprised upon reading that he got new cancer tumor after living unbalanced & working 12 hrs+ for a few months since the cancer almost cleared in the lungs. & the decision to have kids before dying with his wife, that's just kinda selfish, imagining the kid gotta grow up with a missing piece in her little soul without a Dad, that's just serious life trauma purposely created to make his & his wife's life experience better without considering what the kid would endure for life... I assume the traditional thinking mindset of life passes down to kid from parents played into this decision mostly... Lastly, the amount of ball kicking & irresponsibility among the teams of doctors in US healthcare system, it's just OMG! So real! One thing I learned in this world is that sometimes you have to be really mean & pushy to make others deliver what's necessary & important to you. The author was a bit too gentle & soft in dealing with others. The book made me realized that no one cares about your life other than yourself, really. The book is not as inspiring or insightful as I had expected. The author is obviously very intelligent & established, more than me, honestly & sincerely, but not yet achieved the wisdom to comprehend & live his life to its true meaning & make its basic sensibility.