Please share those books to me also. On 2/20/15, Sucharu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Please share these books. > Thanks, > Sucharu > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Vidhya Y > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:39 AM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. > Subject: Re: [AI] Oliver Sacks Writes: 'I am now face to face with dying. > But I am not finished with living' > > his books are really amazing. > I have most of the books. > if any one wants these books, > please reply to this mail so that I can share them. > > On 2/19/15, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: >> A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At >> 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out -- a few weeks >> ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years >> ago it was discovered that I had a rare tumor of the eye, an ocular >> melanoma. Although the radiation and lasering to remove the tumor >> ultimately left me blind in that eye, only in very rare cases do such >> tumors metastasize. I am among the unlucky 2 percent. >> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he- >> has-terminal-cancer.html I feel grateful that I have been granted nine >> years of good health and productivity since the original diagnosis, >> but now I am face to face with dying. The cancer occupies a third of >> my liver, and though its advance may be slowed, this particular sort >> of cancer cannot be halted. >> >> It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to >> me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. >> In this I am encouraged by the words of one of my favorite >> philosophers, David Hume, who, upon learning that he was mortally ill >> at age 65, wrote a short autobiography in a single day in April of >> 1776. He titled it "My Own Life." >> >> "I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution," he wrote. "I have suffered >> very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have, >> notwithstanding the great decline of my person, never suffered a >> moment's abatement of my spirits. I possess the same ardour as ever in >> study, and the same gaiety in company." >> >> I have been lucky enough to live past 80, and the 15 years allotted to >> me beyond Hume's three score and five have been equally rich in work >> and love. In that time, I have published five books and completed an >> autobiography (rather longer than Hume's few pages) to be published >> this spring; I have several other books nearly finished. >> >> Hume continued, "I am ... a man of mild dispositions, of command of >> temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of >> attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation >> in all my passions." >> >> Here I depart from Hume. While I have enjoyed loving relationships and >> friendships and have no real enmities, I cannot say (nor would anyone >> who knows me say) that I am a man of mild dispositions. On the >> contrary, I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent >> enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. >> >> And yet, one line from Hume's essay strikes me as especially true: "It >> is difficult," he wrote, "to be more detached from life than I am at >> present." >> >> >> Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a >> great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of >> the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with >> life. >> >> >> On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the >> time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I >> love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new >> levels of understanding and insight. >> >> >> This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to >> straighten my accounts with the world. But there will be time, too, >> for some fun (and even some silliness, as well). >> >> Continue reading the main story >> >> Continue reading the main story >> >> I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for >> anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work and my friends. >> I shall no longer look at "NewsHour" every night. I shall no longer >> pay any attention to politics or arguments about global warming. >> >> This is not indifference but detachment -- I still care deeply about >> the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but >> these are no longer my business; they belong to the future. I rejoice >> when I meet gifted young people -- even the one who biopsied and >> diagnosed my metastases. I feel the future is in good hands. >> >> I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of >> deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and >> each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of >> myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there >> is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be >> replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate >> -- the genetic and neural fate -- of every human being to be a unique >> individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own >> death. >> >> I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one >> of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and >> I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought >> and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special >> intercourse of writers and readers. >> >> Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this >> beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege >> and adventure. >> >> >> >> Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology at the New York University >> School of Medicine, is the author of many books, including >> "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." >> >> A version of this op-ed appears in print on February 19, 2015, on page >> A25 of the New York edition with the headline: My Own Life. >> >> >> -- >> Avinash Shahi >> Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU >> >> >> >> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing >> accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_acc >> essindia.org.in >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org >> .in >> >> >> Disclaimer: >> 1. 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