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, …
Want to Read $ 12.99"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
"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
"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
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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. How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
4.07
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the def… read more
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"Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force"-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
3. No Death, No Fear
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , None
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been cont… read more
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4. 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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5. 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
6. Dying: A Memoir
By: Cory Taylor
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Cory Taylor is one of Australia's celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booke… read more
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7. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
By: Kathryn Mannix
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more
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8. Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
By: Gordon Livingston , Elizabeth Edwards
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
After service in Vietnam as a surgeon in 1968-69, Dr. Gordon Livingston returned to the U.S. and be… read more
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9. A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
By: Stephen Levine
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?,teaches us how to li… read more
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10. 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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11. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
12. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
13. My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
By: Kevin Toolis
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming ou… read more
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14. 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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15. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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16. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
By: Joanne Cacciatore
4.42
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.… read more
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"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
17. 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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18. 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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19. 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
20. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life
By: Kate Marshall
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more
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21. 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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