A Complete Summary of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Being Mortal is a book written by Atul Gawande, and it is a book that closely follows concepts of death, aging and mortality. When trying to bring these topics to his readers as close as possible, Gawande uses many examples from real life. Some of them include examples of case studies of his fellow doctors, while some of them include his own research, which he did while observing...