From the Division of Medical Humanities Newsletter:
A moving essay from the great Oliver Sacks serves as a primer for embracing life, and science, even as the end approaches: “And now, at this juncture, when death is no longer an abstract concept, but a presence — an all-too-close, not-to-be-denied presence — I am again surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy, with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity.”
