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Oct 10, 2017 · 12 Nonfiction Books About Death To Answer All Your Morbid Questions. by Stephanie Topacio Long. Oct. 10, 2017. You’ve heard it many times before: Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Various ...
Oct 26, 2020 · Top Pick for the Best Book About Death, Dying & Grief. #1 New York Times bestseller. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The memoir When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi remains one of my favorite non-fiction books of all time, and indeed it tackles all topics this post covers: death, dying, AND grief.
Feb 16, 2016 · Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.”. The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life by Ira Byock. “Dying doesn’t cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.”. When Breath Becomes Air. by Paul Kalanithi. “That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in ...
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. Written by Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is one of my favourite non-fiction books.
- From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death. Another book by Caitlin Doughty, this goes outside the North American death market and into the wide world.
- Assassination Vacation. Keeping with the theme of death-themed Road Trips, the delightful Sarah Vowell loves dead presidents. Or at least she likes them enough to take a road trip to where they were assassinated.
- Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. Written by Haruki Murakami, Underground is the only serious book on this list.
- Novels About Death
- Plays About Death
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- Memoirs About Death
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- Children’s Books About Death
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
“In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, “Remember you must die.” Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off.”
White Noise by Don DeLillo
“Winner of the 1985 National Book Award, White Noisetells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and their four ultramodern offspring, as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.”
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
“In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.”
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
“The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity.”
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
“The Iceman Comethfocuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.”
The Ferryman by Jez Butterwoth
“Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor.”
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“A magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.”
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
“Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America’s most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness.”
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
“A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Diehas become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.”
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
“A profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question: What makes a life worth living?”
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
“From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.”
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
“An exquisite memoir about how to live–and love–every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
Quran
“The words of Muhammad who claimed to get them from the angel Gabriel.”
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
“It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world literature, practices that can transform our experience of daily life, guidance on helping those who are dying, and an inspirational perspective on coping with bereavement.”
The Bhagavad Gita
“The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry.”
The Witches by Roald Dahl
“This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches.”
Fear of Missing Out by Kate McGovern
“When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when–and if–a cure is available.”
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
“Doomed to – or blessed with – eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem.”
Oct 23, 2019 · 14. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs. The Bright Hour is a memoir about how to live every day “with death in the room.”. Written by poet Nina Riggs, a direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and mother of two, the memoir offers an uplifting perspective on mortality.
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Jan 3, 2018 · It so beautifully written, and so deeply wise. As part of Graywolf Press’s excellent “The Art of” series on the writing craft, it’s a book about writing on the subject of death, and also a primer on the art of losing someone—in this case, her mother. In her opening essay, “Living Dyingly” (a phrase from Christopher Hitchen’s ...
