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It’s Your Funeral!: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime–Before It’s Too Late
Death is scary—but planning your funeral doesn’t have to be! It’s Your Funeral! will help demystify death, decrease your anxiety, and put the fun back in funeral, whether that…
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What Does it Feel Like to Die?
Author Jennie Dear’s book “What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights into the Experience of Dying” is a touching and compassionate book…
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Unforgettable: A Son, A Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
While NPR’s Scott Simon sat with his 84-year-old mother who was dying in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital, he sent out a…
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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast’s 2014 book, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? starts with this statement: “It was against my parents’ principles to talk about death.”…
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Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve
Prominent critic, poet and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores death and dying after the untimely loss of her husband. She weaves cultural history, her personal…
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In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
After the loss of her brother in her youth and 20 years working in a hospice, Eve Joseph writes lyrical essays on death, dying and…
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The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die
“Like many Westerners at the turn of the 21st century, my family and I had not had much to do with death,” says author Katherine…
