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["Author (Last, First)","Title","Subtitle","Publisher","Year Published","Genre","Summary"]
["Albom, Mitch","For One More Day",null,"Hyperion Books",2006,"Death & Dying","This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her - the day he missed and always wished he'd had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own."]
["Albom, Mitch","The Five People You Meet in Heaven",null,"Da Capo Lifelong Books",2003,"Death & Dying"]
["Allison, Jay","This I Believe II","More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women","Macmillan",2008,"Death & Dying","A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of peopleThis second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventyfive essayistsâ€”ranging from famous to previously unknownâ€”completing the thought that begins the book's title. With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, This I Believe II, like the first New York Times bestselling collection, showcases moving and irresistible essays.Included are Sister Helen Prejean writing about learning what she truly believes through watching her own actions, singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore writing about a hard-won wisdom based on being generous to others, and Robert Fulghum writing about dancing all the dances for as long as he can. Readers will also find wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change.Here is a welcome, stirring, and provocative communion with the minds and hearts of a diverse, new group of peopleâ€”whose beliefs and the remarkably varied ways in which they choose to express them reveal the American spirit at its best."]
["Arcangel, Dianne","Afterlife Encounters","Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experiences","Hampton Roads Publishing Company",2005,"Death & Dying","As a former hospice worker and director of the Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross Center, Dianne Arcangel was certain that visitations from beyond death provided comfort and hope for loved ones still grappling with their loss. As a researcher, however, she was unable to find specific data to measure that comfort and hope. To remedy this lack of information, she created the Afterlife Encounters Survey, a five-year, international survival study. Afterlife Encounters reveals the results of this landmark study and, for the first-time, offers a systematic categorization of such encounters, explaining when these encounters are most likely to occur and what type of apparition is likely to appear.Afterlife Encounters presents not only the data, but also the stories beyond the numbers, as friends and family members relate their visitation experiences in their own words. Included are amazing stories of the dead returning to tell loved ones that they had been murdered and who it was that killed them; apparitions revealing where family treasure was buried; even one spirit who provided a remarkable account of the tragedies of 9/11--weeks before those events occurred.The stats and stories that Arcangel shares are certain to stay with you for a long time, as will her eye-opening conclusion: afterlife encounters provide real, lasting comfort and hope to an astounding 97 percent of those loved ones who experience them."]
["Bay, Jane","Love & Loss","A Story About Life, Death and Rebirth","Clear Light Pub.",2006,"Death & Dying","In her compelling memoir Love & Loss â€“ A Story About Life, Death and Rebirth, Jane Bay gives us a glimpse of the invisible web of connectedness between us and its power to help heal even the deepest of wounds. In sharing the loss of her Tibetan foster daughter, Namgyal Youdon, Bay offers a rare opportunity to travel through the agonizing process of grieving and experience the power and healing of unconditional love. The story is played out in the rich fabric of the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism inside Tibet, India and America.Written as an â€œe-mail diary,â€\u009d Love & Loss is based on e-mails Bay sent out immediately after Namgyal died, replies she received from her dearest friends, e-mails from Namgyal's brothers (one in Tibet and one in India, before and after Namgyal's death) and e-mails that she and Namgyal exchanged during the last two years of Namgyal's life. Brief narratives interwoven throughout the e-mails complete the story."]
["Bernard, Jan Selliken","The True Work of Dying","A Practical and Compassionate Guide to Easing the Dying Process","Avon Books",1997,"Death & Dying","Hospice nurses Jan Selliken Bernard and Miriam Schneider believe that the process of dying mirrors the process of childbirth in the natural life cycle. In \"The True Work Of Dying\", they compare what happens to the mind, body and spirit during birth and death. Without denying the loss and grief that often accompany death, they present a compelling vision of death as a rite of labor for the mysterious release of the soul.Drawing on the rich and poignant stories of their patients, the authors show that when the dying and their caregivers take on the true emotional and spiritual work of dying, healing is virtually inevitable -- though it often comes in unexpected forms. The authors also show how both caregivers and the dying can prepare for the active phase of dying, offering guidelines for administering conventional and naturopathic pain treatments and emotional and spiritual rituals that foster inner healing.With a foreword by Bernie Siegel, M.D., the bestselling author of Love, Medicine &Miracles, this is an indispensable handbook for the dying and their families, as well as for nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers, and religious counselors of all denominations."]
["Boucher, Sandy","Hidden Spring","A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer","Wisdom Publications",1997,"Death & Dying","Hidden Spring is the first book to demonstrate in moment-to-moment detail how Buddhist meditation and practice can help us cope with the ordeal of life-threatening disease. In 1995, Sandy Boucher - a well-known Buddhist and feminist writer - was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. In vivid prose, she describes her year-long encounter with the disease, and reveals how meditation techniques and understanding of Buddhist principles prepared her to meet the mental and physical challenges of her illness. This intimate account of the development of a Western Buddhist meditator is a triumphant tale of the human spirit in its struggle with mortality, and a guide for anyone looking for strength and comfort for their own struggles."]
["Butler, Katy","Knocking on Heaven's Door","The Path to a Better Way of Death","Thorndike Press",2013,"Death & Dying","Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retire-ments before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 mil-lion Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non-life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker. The device kept his heart beating but did nothing to prevent his slide into dementia, incontinence, near-muteness, and misery. After several years, he asked his wife for help, telling her, \"I am living too long.\"  Mother and daughter faced a series of wrench-ing moral questions: When does death cease being a curse and become a blessing? Where is the line between saving life and prolonging a dying? When is the right time to say to a doctor, \"Let my loved one go\"?  When doctors refused to disable the pace-maker, sentencing her father to a protracted and agonizing death, Katy set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother faced her own illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and instead met death head-on. Knocking on Heaven's Door, a revolution-ary blend of memoir and investigative reporting, is the fruit of the Butler family's journey.  With a reporter's skill, a poet's eye, and a daughter's love, Butler explores what happens when our terror of death collides with the tech-nological imperatives of modern medicine. Her provocative thesis is that advanced medicine, in its single-minded pursuit of maximum longevity, often creates more suffering than it prevents. Butler lays bare the tangled web of technology, medicine, and commerce that modern dying has become and chronicles the rise of Slow Medicine--a growing movement that promotes care over cure.  Knocking on Heaven's Door is a visionary map through the labyrinth of a broken and morally adrift medical system. It will inspire the necessary and difficult conversations we all need to have with loved ones as it illuminates a path to a better way of death."]
["Duda, Deborah","Coming Home","A Guide to Dying at Home with Dignity","Aurora Press",1987,"Death & Dying","Provides answers to questions about efforts to ease the path of terminally ill patients to a peaceful conclusion. This book outlines how to make the final weeks as comfortable and meaningful as possible, encouraging the dying person to live fully, until the moment of death."]
["Gawande, Atul","Being Mortal","Medicine and What Matters in the End","Macmillan",2014,"Death & Dying","In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end."]
["Gawande, Atul","Being Mortal","Medicine and What Matters in the End","Macmillan",2014,"Death & Dying","In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end."]
["Goenka, S. N.","The Art of Dying",null,"Pariyatti Press",2014,"Death & Dying","Weaving together material from many sources, this collection provides a context for understanding deathâ€”whether our own or a loved one'sâ€”and experiencing it with awareness and equanimity. It features passages from the Pali texts, writings of S. N. Goenka, poems, theoretical expositions, a question-and-answer section, and compelling essays by or about meditators confronting the end of life. With humility, tenderness, and often a smile, they learn to accept their own impermanence, suffering, and nonself. Much of this material was collected from the archives of the International Vipassana Newsletter."]
["Hall, Bolton","The halo of grief",null,"Brentano's",1919,"Death & Dying"]
["Hitchens, Christopher","Mortality",null,"Twelve",2012,"Death & Dying","On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported \"from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.\" Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man."]
["Kalanithi, Paul","When Breath Becomes Air",null,"Random House",2016,"Death & Dying","#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?  At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naÃ¯ve medical student \"possessed,\" as he wrote, \"by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life\" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.  What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.  Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. \"I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,\" he wrote. \"Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'\" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.  Praise for When Breath Becomes Air  \"I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option. . . . Part of this book's tremendous impact comes from the obvious fact that its author was such a brilliant polymath. And part comes from the way he conveys what happened to him--passionately working and striving, deferring gratification, waiting to live, learning to die--so well. None of it is maudlin. Nothing is exaggerated. As he wrote to a friend: 'It's just tragic enough and just imaginable enough.' And just important enough to be unmissable.\"--Janet Maslin, The New York Times  \"An emotional investment well worth making: a moving and thoughtful memoir of family, medicine and literature. It is, despite its grim undertone, accidentally inspiring.\"--The Washington Post  \"Possesses the gravity and wisdom of an ancient Greek tragedy . . . [Kalanithi] delivers his chronicle in austere, beautiful prose. The book brims with insightful reflections on mortality that are especially poignant coming from a trained physician familiar with what lies ahead.\"--The Boston Globe  \"Devastating and spectacular . . . [Kalanithi] is so likeable, so relatable, and so humble, that you become immersed in his world and forget where it's all heading.\"--USA Today  \"It's [Kalanithi's] unsentimental approach that makes When Breath Becomes Air so original--and so devastating. . . . Its only fault is that the book, like his life, ends much too early.\"--Entertainment Weekly  \"[When Breath Becomes Air] split my head open with its beauty.\"--Cheryl Strayed"]
["Keyssar, Judith Redwing","Last acts of kindness","lessons for the living from the bedsides of the dying","Transformations-in-Care",2010,"Death & Dying"]
["Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth","Death","The Final Stage","Simon and Schuster",2009,"Death & Dying","Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning.  Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death?  Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors.  Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence."]
["Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth","Questions and Answers on Death and Dying","A Companion Volume to On Death and Dying","Simon and Schuster",2011,"Death & Dying","On Death and Dying is one of the most important books ever written on the subject and is still considered the bench-mark in the care of the dying. It became an immediate bestseller, and Life magazine called it \"a profound lesson for the living.\" This companion volume consists of the questions that are most frequently asked of Dr. KÃ¼bler-Ross and her compassionate answers. She discusses accepting the end of life, suicide, terminal illness, euthanasia, how to tell a patient he or she is critically ill, and how to deal with all the special difficulties surrounding death. Questions and Answers on Death and Dying is a vital resource for doctors, nurses, members of the clergy, social workers, and lay people dealing with death and dying."]
["Levang, Elizabeth","When Men Grieve","Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can Help","Fairview Press",1998,"Death & Dying","Explores the often overlooked area of men's grief, and explains how men can better cope with feelings of loss. This title features eleven real-life stories of personal tragedy and uses them to show men how they can learn to communicate their feelings, move beyond denial, and overcome feelings of anger, bitterness, or helplessness."]
["Levine, Stephen","Who Dies?","An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying","Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group",2012,"Death & Dying","Who Dies? is the first book to show the reader how to open to the immensity of living with death, to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. The Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death."]
["Ostaseski, Frank","The Five Invitations","Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully","Flatiron Books",2019,"Death & Dying"]
["Smith, Fran","Changing the Way We Die","Compassionate End of Life Care and The Hospice Movement","Cleis Press",2013,"Death & Dying","Thereâ€™s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice careâ€”nearly 44 percent of all deathsâ€”and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape, through gripping stories of real patients, families, and doctors, as well as the corporate giants that increasingly own the market. Changing the Way We Die is a vital resource for anyone who wants to be prepared to face lifeâ€™s most challenging and universal event. You will learn:â€” Hospice use is soaring, yet most people come too late to get the full benefits.â€” With the age tsunami, it becomes even more critical for families and patients to choose end-of-life care wisely.â€” Hospice at its best is much more than a way to relieve the suffering of dying. It is a way to live."]
["Young, Kevin","The Art of Losing","Poems of Grief and Healing","Bloomsbury Publishing USA",2010,"Death & Dying","Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are brief. There are two times most people turn to it: for love and loss. Although collections of love poetry abound, there are very few anthologies for the grieving. In The Art of Losing, editor Kevin Young Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal a gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss. Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W.H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright."]