Audiobook Being Mortal by Atul Gawande in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Atul Gawande's Being Mortal isn't just a book-it's a necessary conversation, and the audiobook makes it feel deeply personal. You hear his calm, thoughtful voice navigate the raw, often uncomfortable truths about aging, illness, and death, turning complex medical failures into relatable human stories.
Gawande, a surgeon who's witnessed medicine's triumphs and limits, doesn't just critique; he shares his own family's struggles with aging. You'll feel the weight of nursing homes prioritizing safety over autonomy-like when residents fight over what they're allowed to eat-and doctors avoiding the hard talk about death, instead offering empty promises of "more time." The audiobook's power lies in its intimacy: his quiet honesty makes you lean in, not away.
What's brilliant here is how he reframes the goal. It's not about "a good death"-it's about "a good life," fully lived, even as time runs short. The stories linger: a patient choosing a simple meal over a prescribed diet, a family finally speaking openly about fears. Gawande's narration avoids sentimentality, grounding each moment in real stakes. You hear the urgency in his voice when he asks, What do we truly want at the end?
This isn't a clinical treatise. It's compassionate, urgent, and quietly revolutionary. The audiobook format amplifies its humanity-no detached reading, just a doctor, a friend, guiding you through what we all face. It's the kind of listen that reshapes how you see your own future, your loved ones, and the systems meant to care for us.
Being Mortal is a gift. It doesn't offer easy answers, but it gives you permission to ask the right questions. And in an age of medical overreach, that's the most profound gift of all. Listen closely. It might change everything.
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Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
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