Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.Atul Gawande

We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.Atul Gawande

Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone.Atul Gawande

The goal is not a good death. The goal is a good life—all the way to the very end.Atul Gawande

I learned a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.Atul Gawande

The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society.Atul Gawande

When it comes to dying, there is no good decision—only a decision you can live with.Atul Gawande

We imagine that we can wait until the doctors tell us that there is nothing more they can do. But rarely is there nothing more that medicine can do.Atul Gawande

Courage is the strength to recognize both realities. We have room to act, to shape our stories, though as time goes on it is within narrower and narrower confines.Atul Gawande

When what's to come is concrete, and when it's a matter of days or months, not just of decades or lifetimes, then decisions often have to be made. What do you want your remaining days to look like?Atul Gawande