Death Dying


When Breath Becomes Air
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
The Year of Magical Thinking
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
The Fault in Our Stars
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
A Monster Calls
All the Living and the Dead
Anna Quindlen
I think every fear you ever have, every one -- thunder or spiders or roller coasters -- they're all fear of dying. Every last one. ...more
Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

That is what I wish for all of us: a life that feels like the miracles it is and a death that serves as a period on a satisfying sentence. Because we live, we get to die. That is a gift.
Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

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