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Living Beyond Limits: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness

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By David Spiegel — 1993

A pioneer in the world of mind-body healing, the author provides support and guidance for those living with life-threatening illness, showing how, with the help of support groups, people can live longer and fuller lives.

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The Healing I Took Birth For: Practicing the Art of Compassion

For more than 32 years, Stephen and Ondrea Levine have provided emotional and spiritual support to those who face life-threatening illness and their caregivers; deeply affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the process.

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Ondrea Levine, Stephen Levine
2015
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The Smooth River: Finding Inspiration and Exquisite Beauty during Terminal Illness. Lessons from the Front Line.

A couple developed a far more expansive and creative view of what strength means in response to a cancer diagnosis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River.

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Richard S. Cohen
2021
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.

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Nina Riggs
2024
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Your Cancer Road Map: Navigating Life with Resilience

Each year, 1.8 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. Upon learning this difficult news, individuals also have a minefield of complex information to navigate regarding treatment plans, insurance coverage, clinical trials, and more.

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Kim Thiboldeaux, Jill Biden (foreword)
2021
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P.

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Michael J. Fox
2024
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Let’s Talk About Hard Things

Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You know the one. The one that you’ve been avoiding or putting off, maybe for years.

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Anna Sale
2021
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How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (New Edition)

A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

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Sherwin B. Nuland
1995
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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler wrote the classic On Grief and Grieving, introducing the stages of grief with the same transformative pragmatism and compassion.

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David Kessler
2020
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Gratitude

“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

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Oliver Sacks
2015
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Dying: A Memoir

Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account of what dying teaches: Taylor describes the tangle of her feelings, remembers the lives and deaths of her parents, and examines why she would like to be able to choose the...

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Cory Taylor
2017
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