Some Good Books on Death/End of Life

·       The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

·       By: Katy Butler

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Katy Butler

·       Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

·       By: Katy Butler

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Katy Butler

 

Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By Hadley Vlahos

Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

 

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul  
by Stephen Jenkinson

 

Books By Dying People:

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, 

by Atul Gawande

Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

 

When Breath Becomes Air 

by Paul Kalanithi   

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

By: Julie Yip-Williams

Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

 

Books By the Survivors:

 The Iceberg
By Marion Coutts

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

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Other Related Books:

The Wild Edge of Sorrow –  Rituals of renewal and the sacred work of grief

by Francis Weller

Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

 

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory

·       By: Caitlin Doughty

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

 

“Imperfect Endings” 
by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter - a daughter’s tale of life and death –

 

Books Recommended by Shary Farr

• Coming Home by Deborah Duda
• A Beginners Guide to the End – B. J. Miller, MD, Shoshana Berger
• The Divine Art of Dying – Karen Speerstra, Herbert Anderson
• Radical Acts of Love – Janie Brown
• Finding Peace at the End of Life – Henry Fersko-Weiss

 

Books Recommended by Christina E, Death Doula

◦ 1)Preparing to Die by Andrew Holeck

◦  2)Extreme Measures by Jessica Nutik Zitter

◦  3)What Does it Feel Like to Die? by Jennie Dear

◦ 4) Vision Trips and Crowded Rooms by David Kessler

◦5) Advice For Future Corpses by Sallie Tisdale 

◦6) From Here To Eternity by Caitlyn Doughty

◦7) On Living by Kerry Egan

 

Stroke

·       Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke

·       By: Debra E. Meyerson PhD , Danny Zuckerman

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Julia Whelan       

 

Cancer

·       Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds

·       By: Kelly A. Turner

Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

 

Aging

·       They May Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel

·       By: Cathleen Schine

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

 

Life and Death

·       The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

·       By: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Douglas Carlton Abrams , full cast , Francois Chau, Peter Francis James

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*Five Invitations: What death can teach us about living well, by Frank Ostaseski

·       Narrated by: Frank Ostaseski

 

·       Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

·       By: Walt Odets

·       Available in hard copy, kindle, and audible

·       Narrated by: Will Damron

 

Menopause

• New Menopausal Years: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90 by Susun Weed

 

Selected Reading on Relationships, Sexuality & Survivors of Abuse

• The Dance of Anger, Harriet Ghodhor Lerner, Ph.D.
• The Courage to Heal, Ellun Bass and Laura Davis
• The Courage to Heal Worksbook, Laura Davis
• The Flock, Joan Frances Casey with Lynn Wilson
• United We Stand, Eliana Gil
• Male Sexualithy, Bernie Zilbergeld

Selected Reading on Codependency and ACA/Dysfunctional Family Issues

• It Will Never Happen to Me, Claudia Black
• Adult Children of Alcoholics, Janet Woititz
• Outgrowing The Pain, Eliana Gil
• Healing the Child Within, Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
• Codependent No More, Melody Beattie
• Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw
• Homecoming, John Bradshaw