A few months ago, a twitter follower asked us for recommendations on books about death and end-of-life care. the search for great recommendations led us to some amazing reads that we have compiled here to share with you all. We hope these wonderful books will inspire and encourage you to use our guide to start conversations and get the conversation started with the ones you love!
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The Conversation by Angelo Volandes
“what people need most on this journey is not the promise of the next new technology, but a guide to help them navigate this dark forest they will undoubtedly find themselves in.”
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
knocking on katy butler’s door to heaven
“When my father was vigorous and clear-headed, (my mother) regarded medicine as her cunning ally in a lifelong campaign to stave off old age, disease, and death. now ally and enemy exchanged masks. medicine was more like the enemy and death the friend.”
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
“I wish that, at the end of life, when things are truly “done”, there is something to look forward to. something more pleasure-oriented… all-you-can-eat ice cream parlors for extremely elderly people. great art and music picture books. Extreme palliative care, for when you’ve had enough of everything else: the X-rays, the MRIs, the boring food, and the pills that don’t do anything at all. would that be so bad?”
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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the end.”
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See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
“sorrow doesn’t change you, hazelnut. reveals to you.”
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Therese Brown
“I look at her. this is the moment when she will leave my care forever. mine may be the last familiar hospital face you see before you sink and I want you to remember her as calm and present.”
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
“mourning turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. we anticipate (know) that someone close to us might die, but we don’t look beyond the few days or weeks immediately following that imagined death. we misunderstand the nature of even those few days or weeks. we might expect that if the death is sudden, we would feel a shock. we do not expect this shock to be annihilating, dislocating both body and mind. we can expect to be prostrate, inconsolable, mad with loss. we don’t expect to be literally crazy cool customers who think her husband is about to come back and needs his shoes.”
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How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
“The greatest dignity found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. this is a form of hope that we all call achieving, and it is the most permanent of all. hope lies in the meaning of what our life has been.”
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life by Ira Byock
“dying does not cause suffering. the resistance to die yes.”
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
See Also: Mary Jo Putney – Book Series In Order
You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
When Breath Becomes Air
by paul kalanithi
“that message is simple: when you come to one of the many moments in life when you must account for yourself, provide an accounting book of what you have been, done and meant to the world, no, I beg you to discount that you filled the days of a dying man with a satiated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my previous years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. right now, right now, that’s a huge thing.”
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You are reading: End of life books
See Also: 8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016
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You are reading: End of life books
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