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Siddartha Mukherjee

Siddartha Mukherjee is a physician, scientist and writer. His book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. He is currently an assistant professor medicine at Columbia University in New York.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 124 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 124 padlock

The Perfect Last Days of Mr Sengupta

Siddartha Mukherjee

‘The point of lucid death,’ he said, ‘is to retain the consciousness of dying, while blunting the agony of it.’

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