The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
By: David Kessler
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"This book serves the needs of the person sitting by the bedside as much as it does the person who …
Want to Read"We live in a fix-it society with the technology to repair many broken things at our fingertips. We forget that we’ve all been deliberately designed to “end"-David Kessler, The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
"We live in a fix-it society with the technology to repair many broken things at our fingertips. We forget that we’ve all been deliberately designed to “end"-David Kessler, The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
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1. 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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- health
- psychology
- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
2. 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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- health
- medicine
- psychology
- death
- nonfiction
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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
3. The Blue Castle
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more
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4. 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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6. 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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7. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
8. Maybe This Time
By: Cara Bastone
3.84
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Finding true love is only a matter of time in this heartfelt and hilarious romantic comedy, starrin… read more
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9. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.28
Format: 282 pages, ebook
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. … read more
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- health
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
10. 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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11. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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- mental health
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
12. 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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- health
- medicine
- psychology
- death
- nonfiction
- self help
"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
13. The Survivalists
By: Kashana Cauley
2.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her co… read more
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14. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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- nonfiction
15. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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16. Finding Peace at the End of Life: A Death Doula's Guide for Families and Caregivers
By: Henry Fersko-Weiss
4.59
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Beautiful, poignant, pitch perfect and accessible . . . a road-map for clinicians, patients, famil… read more
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- death
- nonfiction
- health
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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- death
- nonfiction
- self help
18. The Eleventh Hour: A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death
By: Barbara Karnes
4.59
Format: 27 pages, Paperback
The hours to minutes before imminent death are generally filled with fear and helplessness for anyo… read more
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19. The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
By: David Kessler
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"This book serves the needs of the person sitting by the bedside as much as it does the person who … read more
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- health
- medicine
- social work
- psychology
- death
- mental health
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
"We live in a fix-it society with the technology to repair many broken things at our fingertips. We forget that we’ve all been deliberately designed to “end"-David Kessler, The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
20. Grieving Room: Making Space for All the Hard Things after Death and Loss
By: Leanne Friesen
4.56
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
When we lose someone we love, we are forever changed. When our person dies, our grief needs room. P… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- mental health
21. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
By: Lisa Marie Presley
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more
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