Oliver Sacks’ letters from a beautiful mind
on June 1974, Oliver Sacks wrote to Bob Rodman, a psychiatrist who had been a close friend since they were both medical residents at UCLA. Rodman’s wife, Maria – only 38 years old – had been diagnosed with a mysterious illness that would eventually prove fatal; Rodman wrote to Sacks of his shock, his despair. Suicide, he wrote, was a “luxury” since the couple had two young daughters.
A still from the film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, that included interviews with Sacks weeks after he received a terminal diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015.
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