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You Are Already Dying

By Joan Halifax — 2019

The most profound meditation, says Joan Halifax, is contemplating the certainty of your own death.

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Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials

Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to...

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Lucinda Herring
2019
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.

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Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley
2012
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Diary of a Death Doula: 25 Lessons the Dying Teach Us About the Afterlife

Sooner or later, everyone asks questions about end of life.

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Debra Diamond
2019
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead.

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Caitlin Doughty
2025
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize–winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them).

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Sallie Tisdale
2019
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

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Atul Gawande
2017
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The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely.

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Katy Butler
2020
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What Dying Patients Taught this Doctor About the Fear of Death | Fahad Saeed | TEDxRochester

Through intimate personal reflections and patient stories, Fahad Saeed, MD shares his personal journey with the fear of death. In the end, he is surprised to find a simple answer to embracing his own mortality. Dr.

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2019
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How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (New Edition)

A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

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Sherwin B. Nuland
1995
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Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts

This book provides a practical guide for those facing disease and death by helping them to access the ageless wisdom of the Buddha’s teaching. Disease and death are undeniably integral parts of human life. Yet when they manifest we are easily caught unprepared.

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Bhikkhu Analayo
2017
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