Atul Gawande is an American of East Indian descent and is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Being Mortal is not a complicated, medical read! It is “wise and deeply moving, an essential and insightful book for our times”. Yes, this book deals with difficult questions that perhaps we might want to ignore. But they are important questions about living a life with meaning. It is not “just about dying and the limits of medicine but about living to the last with autonomy, dignity, and joy.”