Present through the End: A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying
By: Kirsten DeLeo
4.32
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Present through the End offers guidance for anyone who is struggling to support someone at the end …
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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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- death
- nonfiction
- health
"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 Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service
By: Ram Dass , Richard Alpert , Paul Gorman
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Discover how giving of yourself can lead to some of the most joyous moments in your life—in a book … read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
3. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner
4.40
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- health
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
4. Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care
By: Koshin Paley Ellison , Matt Weingast , Ogyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
This book isn't about dying. It's about life and what life has to teach us. It's about caring and w… read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- health
5. Dying Well
By: Ira Byock
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson i… read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- health
6. Living When a Loved One Has Died: Revised Edition
By: Earl A. Grollman
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, "there is no way to predict how you will feel. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
7. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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8. On the Move: A Life
By: Oliver Sacks
4.02
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will … read more
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- nonfiction
"In 1966, after arriving in New York, I read two of Luria's books, Higher Cortical Functions in Man and Human Brain and Psychological Processes. The latter, which contained very full case histories of…"-Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life
"Individuality is deeply imbued in us from the very start, at the neuronal level. Even at a motor level, researchers have shown, an infant does not follow a set pattern of learning to walk or how to r…"-Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life
9. Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
By: None
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Being Mortaland Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framewo… read more
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10. Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
By: Joan Halifax , Ira Byock
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this long-awaited book of inspiring and practical teachings, Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax offer… read more
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11. The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
By: Timothy Leary , Ralph Metzner
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
This manual uses material from The Tibetan Book of the Deadfor this preparation. The authors also m… read more
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12. The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
By: Ira Byock
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
Four simple phrases -- "Please forgive me", "I forgive you", "Thank you", and "I love you" -- carry… read more
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13. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Susan Cain
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- health
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
14. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
15. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
16. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
17. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
18. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By: Sogyal Rinpoche
4.21
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan … read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- death
"Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent."-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feel…"-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this un…"-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote…"-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
19. 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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- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- health
20. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
By: Hadley Vlahos
4.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- health
21. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
4.19
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- health
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
22. The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy
By: John M. Gottman
4.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And mos… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- nonfiction
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
24. How to Say Goodbye
By: Wendy MacNaughton
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A USA TODAY Bestseller “A poem to mortality and the beauty of how we can cope with it.”―Atul Gaw… read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- health
25. Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying
By: Ram Dass
4.45
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate dialogue between two friends and luminaries on love, death, and the spiritual path, wit… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- death
"We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there's a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence."-Ram Dass, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying
26. 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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- death
- nonfiction
- health
27. Present through the End: A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying
By: Kirsten DeLeo
4.32
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Present through the End offers guidance for anyone who is struggling to support someone at the end … read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- health
28. Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner)
By: Michael Hebb
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed co-founder of Death over Din… read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- health
29. Listening to the Heart: A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism
By: Kittisaro and Thanissara
4.27
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
A husband and wife share stories of struggle and triumph along the path of the Buddha, distilling h… read more
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30. Accompanying the Dying: Practical, Heart-Centered Wisdom for End-of-Life Doulas and Health Care Advocates
By: Deanna Cochran
4.28
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Accompanying the Dying describes the human skill and art of companioning someone through dying. The… read more
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- death
