Oliver Sacks is Dieing

     Oliver Sacks has long been on my list of people I would dearly love to hang out with for an hour or two. He is a renown neurologist whose books gave me hope after my own diagnosis of traumatic brain injury incurred during a motor vehicle accident. Like me, Oliver Sacks has prosopagnosia, although I suspect that my case of face-blindness is more mild than his. Also like me [and Sir Terry Pratchett who died recently], Oliver Sacks is an atheist.

     Oliver Sacks has terminal cancer. My world was made a bit more beautiful by his presence in my library.

     I am grateful to Oliver Sacks for gently teasing out the mysteries of neurological conditions and for presenting his patients as human beings first.

     I love you Oliver Sacks.   


Oliver Sacks essay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html


recent articles referencing Oliver Sacks:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/living/feat-oliver-sacks-cancer-essay/index.html

http://www.celebritydiagnosis.com/2015/02/oliver-sachs-terminal-cancer/

http://boingboing.net/2015/02/19/oliver-sacks-i-have-terminal.html

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/20/oliver-sacks-reveals-terminal-cancer

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2010/oct/17/profile-oliver-sacks-author-neurologist  an old article about face blindness or prosopagnosia



other info about prosopagnosia:

http://www.faceblind.org/

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/living-with-face-blindness/279898/