The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
By: Katy Butler
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient o…
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
By: Maggie Callanan , Patricia Kelley
4.27
Format: 637 pages,
Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Giftshas beco… read more
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3. On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Written by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler--Ross this book explores the five stages of death: denial and isola… read more
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"Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud."-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
"We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us."-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
"Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion."-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest."-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
4. Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
By: Henry Fersko-Weiss
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Caring for the Dyingdescribes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dyin… read more
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5. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
By: Nina Riggs
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina… read more
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6. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
By: Chris Bohjalian
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the best-se… read more
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8. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
By: None
3.20
Format: 192 pages,
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of ev… read more
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9. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
By: Julie McFadden
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more
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10. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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11. The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
By: Katy Butler
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient o… read more
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12. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to… read more
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"A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"NK, or natural killer, cells, which, like macrophages, attack targets like microbes, do not always kill. A 2013 article reports that about half of the NK cells sit out the fight, leaving a minority o…"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when …"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
13. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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14. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
By: Sallie Tisdale
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more
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"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
15. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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16. The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom
By: Lydia S. Dugdale
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Columbia University physician inspires us to rethink death and offers insights on how we can lear… read more
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17. A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
By: B.J. Miller
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Audiobook
“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only al… read more
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18. Cultivating the Doula Heart: Essentials of Compassionate Care
By: Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
4.37
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Loss is difficult...and universal. What do we say? What do we do? Part how-to guide, part hopeful … read more
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19. The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared
By: Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Find practical and emotional support for your journey with this immersive workbook. If you are … read more
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20. Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice
By: Natalie Goldberg
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a deva… read more
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