Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village surrounded by his close friends & family He was 82 He spent his final days doing what he loved playing the piano swimming enjoying smoked salmon
- & writing As Dr Sacks looked back over his long adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude In a series of remarkable beautifully written & uplifting meditations in Gratitude Dr Sacks reflects on & gives thanks for a life well lived & expresses his thoughts on growing old facing terminal cancer & reaching the end I cannot pretend I am without fear But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude I have loved & been loved; I have been given much & I have given something in return; I have read & travelled & thought & written I have had an intercourse with the world the special intercourse of writers & readers Above all I have been a sentient being a thinking animal on this beautiful planet & that in itself has been an enormous privilege & adventure