Oliver Sacks · Oliver Sacks: Gratitude Near the End

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The neurologist who made case histories human, then met terminal cancer with attention and gratitude. A memento mori obituary comic centered on Terminal metastatic ocular/uveal melanoma in 2015, after a 2006 eye tumor, before his final essays collected as Gratitude.

Citable Summary

Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: Terminal metastatic ocular/uveal melanoma in 2015, after a 2006 eye tumor, before his final essays collected as Gratitude.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including Official Oliver Sacks biography; Official Gratitude page; The Guardian obituary; New York Times obituary.

Story Notes

This comic follows Oliver Sacks, The neurologist who made case histories human, then met terminal cancer with attention and gratitude.

The story turns on Terminal metastatic ocular/uveal melanoma in 2015, after a 2006 eye tumor, before his final essays collected as Gratitude, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes Official Oliver Sacks biography; Official Gratitude page; The Guardian obituary; New York Times obituary.

Sources

Official Oliver Sacks biography
Official Gratitude page
The Guardian obituary
New York Times obituary

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