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O P - E D C O N T R I B U T O R By Oliver S acks Feb. 19, 2015 A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I stil l 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 ...
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Sep 15, 2000 · The famous Mishnah in Sanhedrin states (Steven Spielberg used it in his film Schindler’s List) that a single life is like a universe. “One who destroys a life is as if he destroyed a universe. One who saves a life is as if he saved a universe.”. The birth of a human life is like the birth of the universe.
Nov 24, 2015 · “Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts,” proclaimed a 1924 guide to the art of living.That one of the greatest scientists of our time should be one of our greatest teacher in that art is nothing short of a blessing for which we can only be grateful — and that’s precisely what Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015), a Copernicus of the mind and a Dante of ...
“A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays….A lasting gift to readers….unlike other writers who have reported from the front lines of mortality, Sacks did not focus on his illness, his medical ordeal or spirituality, but on “what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life—achieving a sense of peace within oneself.” —Heller McAlpin, Washington Post
Aug 30, 2015 · Fresh Air Interview, 1987. Oliver Sacks talks to NPR’s Terry Gross about the relationship between the body and the mind—especially among patients whose ability to connect the two is altered ...
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Aug 30, 2016 · He confronted death directly, with courageous curiosity and radiant lucidity, in one of his New York Times essays posthumously collected in the small, enormously life-affirming book Gratitude (public library) — that great parting gift which gave us Dr. Sacks’s warm wisdom on the measure of living and the dignity of dying, edited by his partner, the writer and photographer Bill Hayes, and ...
