An inspiring and brilliantly observed memoir in the manner of When Breath Becomes Air and Tuesdays with Morrie The expression still waters run deep has never been more apt. Jeff Sutherlands Still Life is the training manual all of us need for how to face terrible loss and redefine the good life. If only Job could have read it. MO ROCCA CBS Sunday Morning Father husband athlete medical doctor Jeff Sutherland had built a perfect life for himself and his family...then he noticed that he was losing strength in his left arm. He visited a specialist and from that appointment he writes deep personal loss for some unknown reason wrapped its tentacles around me and my family. Diagnosed with ALS Lou Gehrigs Disease he lost his abilities to walk and speak within two years and confined to a wheelchair was forced to retire from his lifes work as a physician at fortythree. Not long after he was locked in his own inanimate body unable to eat drink or breathe without assistance. His meals were delivered through a feeding tube and a ventilator controlled his lungs through an opening in his throat. The only parts of his body he was able to move voluntarily were his eyes. Despite these extreme limitations Sutherland made peace with his disease and surrounded by his loving family found happiness again only to suffer another soulshattering loss. His eldest son Zachary a lifeguard drowned along with his girlfriend in a freak kayaking accident in the river behind the family home. Despite everything I lost through ALS he says Zacharys death was worse. Yet again through a long process of suffering and healing Sutherland was able to accept his loss and find a renewed sense of purpose and meaning in his constricted life. His story laboriously written on a computerized device that tracks his eye movements on a visual keyboard is a testament to both the human wills ability to overcome unspeakable tragedy and the power of familial love to heal incomprehensible pain. When a negative change occu