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Books

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last, Stephen Levine

To Die Well:  A Holistic Approach for the Dying and Their Caregivers, Richard Reoch

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

Dying to be Me, Anita Moorjani

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

The Four Things That Matter Most, Ira Byock, M.D.

Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey, David Maginley

The Five Invitations:  Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, Fran Ostaseski

Extreme Measures:  Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, Jessica Nutik Zitter

Luminous Emptiness:  Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Francesca Fremantle

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche

Mind Beyond Death, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth:  A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook, Tulku Thondup

Dying with Confidence: A Tibetan Buddhist Guide to Preparing for Death, Anyen Rinpoche

Making Friends with Death: a Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality, Judith Lief

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, Roshi Joan Halifax

Preparing to Die:  Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, Andrew Holecek

Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, Stephen Levine

Graceful Exits:  How Great Beings Die, Sushila Blackman

The Tao of Death:  The Secret to a Rich & Meaningful Life, Karen Wyatt, MD

What Really Matters:  7 Lessons from the Living from the Stories of the Dying, Karen Wyatt, MD

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, Caitlin Doughty

From Here to Eternity:  Travelling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty

Grave Matters:  A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, Mark Harris

Knocking on Heaven’s Door:  The Path to a Better Way of Death, Katy Butler

The Amateur’s Guide to Death and Dying:  Enhancing the End of Life, Richard Wagner, M.Div., Ph.D.

My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach us to Live, Love and Die, Kevin Toolis

The Conversation:  A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care, Angelo E. Volandes, MD

Talking About Death Won’t Kill You:  The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations, Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller

 

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